Three Sevres coffee cans (gobelets litron), c.1779-1800, the largest painted with pink roses around foliate scrolls above a puce band, one with Classical portrait roundels by Sioux between formal scroll motifs and blue bands, the last painted by Marie-Barbe Bunel with a blue ribbon entwining pink roses on a yellow ground above a narrow berried leaf border, various marks, 7cm max. (3)

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