A Sèvres 'Frises Riches' Coffee Can and Saucer, Dated 1778

Property from an Important Midwestern Collection

A Sèvres 'Frises Riches' Coffee Can and Saucer, Dated 1778

gobelet 'litron' et soucoupe, of the second size, richly decorated with chased-gilt-scroll borders reserving medallions of pink roses on a blue seeded ground, from which hangs tasseled purple swags issuing berry vines, the rims with a pale-pink-ground diaper borders, interlaced LL marks in blue containing dater letters AA for 1778, painter's mark above for Guillaume Noël, the can incised 3-1, the saucer with numeral 45