A SEVRES SILVER-GILT MOUNTED JUG AND COVER, 1773 |

pot 'à l'eau tourné', of the first size, painted with scattered flower sprigs and blue-line and gilt-edged rims, interlaced LL mark in blue enclosing date letter U for 1773, painter's marks for Mutel (active as a painter from 1754-59, 65-67 and 1771-74), and Claude-Antoine Tardy (active 1757-95), gilder’s mark VD for Jean-Baptiste-Emmanuel Vandé (active 1753-79), incised mark, the hinged silver-gilt mount with shell thumb piece