A rare Russian porcelain chocolate cup with cover and saucer, c.1780, Francis Gardner factory,

A rare Russian porcelain chocolate cup with cover and saucer, c.1780, Francis Gardner factory, Verbilki, Moscow, painted in the Sèvres manner with puce flower garlands suspended from gilt ribbons, the cup with a double handle and mounted with a flower finial, blue G mark, 12.6cm. (3)

Cf. Metropolitan Museum, New York, No. 06.354 b for a cup and saucer with the same decoration.