A Sèvres coffee can and saucer (gobelet litron et soucoupe) date codes for 1780 and 1781, the can painted with a couple taking birds out of a small cage resting on a plinth before them, the saucer decorated by François-Pascal Philippine with two doves perched on a flaming torch and a bow and arrow beneath a tree, reserved on a bleu nouveau ground with a gilt foliate scroll border, blue interlaced Ls marks enclosing date letters and above painters' marks, 12.6cm. (2) Provenance: purchased from Sotheby's, 18th February 1991, lot 51.