A SEVRES ROSE MARBRE-GROUND GOLD-MOUNTED SMALL COFFEE POT AND HINGED COVER 1761

the pear-shaped body reserved with a conforming gilt-edged panel painted with figures in a riverscape and the cover with a floral wreath, the gold-mounted turned ivory handle set perpendicularly to the gold-covered spout, interlaced L's and date letter I in blue enamel.

Sold, Sotheby's, London, March 14, 1967, lot 4
The Antique Porcelain Company, London
The Collection of Sir John Plumb, F. B. A.
The Collection Of Robert S. Pirie, sold Christie's, New York, May 5, 1999, lot 63

London, Winifred Williams, Eighteenth Century French Porcelain, July 3-20, 1978, no. 39

Sir John Plumb, "The Intrique of Sèvres", House and Garden, January, 1986, p. 44, illustrated

Please note: The porcelain has not been examined beneath the mounts. Howver, the is a minor small haircrack and repaired chip to the porcelain beneath the handle's mount where it meets the body of the pot. There are several very minor occasional tiny spots of wear to the gilding; otherwise the porcelain is in good condition.
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A milk jug and cover (pot à lait) of the same form is illustrated by Tamara Prèaud and Marcelle Brunet, Sèvres Des originies à nos jours, p. 164, no.121, from which the present example was most likely adapted.