Five Sèvres ice cups c.1760-1780, three painted with polychrome flower sprays on a white ground between blue lines with gilt dashes, another decorated in the Vincennes manner with a gilt border of small trellis panels reserved within foliate scrolls, the last painted with a panel of pink rose and other flowers within a gilt floral border on a bleu celeste ground, and a Sèvres-style ice cup painted with flower sprays within feuilles de choux borders, blue interlaced Ls marks, painter's marks including Jacques-François Micaud père, Jean-Jacques Pierre and Niquet, some faults, one handle lacking, 6.5cm. (6) The bleu celeste ice cup is possibly from a service purchased in 1769 by Francis Thomas Fitzmaurice, 4th Earl of Kerry via the banker, Sir John Francis Lambert.