A SEVRES FLORAL PAINTED PORCELAIN TETE-A-TETE

Description:

1765
H. 6,5/13 cm, 32,5 x 25 cm
Comprising a tray, two cups and saucers and a teapot. Painted with lush bouquets of flowers, gilt rim with blue ribbon line. Blue interlaced L-marks with date letter M and painter's mark L for Denis Levé I (1754-1800+), incised and pressed marks. Very small chip to spout, rose on the lid of teacup restored, min. chips to bottom of tray.
Important Rhenish private collection, acquired before 2000
Lit. Sèvres Porcelain, Makers and Marks of The Eighteenth Century, Carl Christian Dauterman, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY 1986