SÈVRES Two round tub-shaped butter dishes (one without lid) on adjoining tray with polychrome decoration of bouquets of flowers and gold serrated fillets. Marks: on one LL interlaced, letter-date Y for 1776, painter Melle Xhrouet on the other LL interlaced, letter-date U? gilder Weydinger L. 21cm Restorations on one. Also included: -SÈVRES Round covered soft-paste porcelain butter dish in tub form with polychrome decoration of bouquets of flowers, blue and gold fillets around the edges. Marked LL interlaced, letter-date L for 1764, painter's mark attributed to Henry-Joseph Mongenot. 18th century H. 7.5cm - D. 10cm Chips. [3]

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