A Sèvres coffee can and saucer (gobelet litron et soucoupe) date code for 1782, to commemorate the birth of the Dauphin, painted probably by François Mirey, the cup with two putti on clouds holding a single lily and a crown above a dolphin, flanked by a scroll and open book inscribed with celebrations of the royal birth, within a quatrefoil panel on a pink oeil de perdrix ground, the saucer with a rose, lily and other flowers amidst clouds, in a gilt cartouche on a similar ground within a berried leaf border, brown interlaced Ls marks enclosing date letters EE above painter's mark and gilder's mark for Decambos, a section of the can broken and restuck, 13.6cm. (2) Provenance: purchased from Golding, Young & Meyer, 25th June 2014, lot 1. The decoration on the can is believed to commemorate the birth of Louis Joseph Xavier François de France, the first son of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette - the Dauphin of France. Another example is in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, Accession No. 786-1882.