Three Sèvres coffee cans (gobelets litron) c.1779-97, one painted by Jean-Etienne Chabry with a shepherdess carrying a basket of eggs resting on hay, two sheep recumbent at her side, another painted by Philippe Castel with a girl refusing the enthusiastic advances of a young man while her female companion is distracted, the last decorated with a young naked couple canoodling beneath trees, all within elaborate gilt scroll borders reserved on a bleu nouveau ground, interlaced Ls marks enclosing date codes and above painter's marks, the second can with an RF monogram and script Sèvres mark, 7.5cm max. (3) Cf. The Metropolitan Museum, Accession No. 1975.1.1624a,b, for a similar Chabry can and saucer.