Sèvres hard-paste porcelain ewer and oval basin with gilt silver mount

Sèvres Manufactory, 1778
A fine hard-paste porcelain ewer and its matching oval basin, decorated in polychrome with trophies and garlands of flowers, bordered by a gilded frieze of scrolls and trellis motifs. The lid is fitted with a vermeil (gilt silver) mount.
The ewer bears in red the interlaced LL mark beneath a crown, with the date letter “AA” for 1778, and the painter’s mark of Chulot.
The basin is marked in blue with the interlaced LL and bears the gilder’s mark of Weydinger.
Date: 18th century, 1778
Dimensions: Height 20 cm; Length 29 cm