A Sèvres coffee can (gobelet litron) c.1785, decorated by Louis Antoine Le Grand or Etienne-Henry Le Guay with gilded of birds in flight and perched on scrollwork beside trees and fountains, reserved on a bleu nouveau ground, blue interlaced Ls mark, above painter's mark of LG, cracked and with a filled chip, 7.5cm. Cf. The Royal Collection, No. RCIN 39843 for a near identical example. Provenance: purchased from Errol Manners, June 1988.