A rare pair of Sèvres flower vases (corbeille ovale) date codes for 1778, the flared forms painted by Edmé-François Bouillat, one side with a garland of flowers suspended from tied blue ribbons, each reverse with a spray of pink roses, the feet with a band of gilt foliage, gilt dentil rims, purple interlaced Ls marks with date letters AA and painter's marks, cracked, 17.5cm across. (2) Very few examples of this shape are recorded. A pink ground example dated 1759 sold at Sotheby's on 12th June 1984, lot 210, and a pair were sold by Adrian Sassoon from a private New York collection in 2018. Provenance: purchased from Bonhams, 28th October 1988, lot 106. Formerly in the Winifred Armstrong Collection, Cambridge. Both carrying paper labels inscribed 'Lord F'.