Two Sèvres saucers, c.1770-79, one painted by Jean-Louis Morin with sailors and barrels in harbour

Two Sèvres saucers, c.1770-79, one painted by Jean-Louis Morin with sailors and barrels in harbour scenes, reserved on a bleu nouveau ground, the other trembleuse and painted by Etienne-Jean Chabry with a dog seated beneath a tree, and with a basket of flowers, reserved on a blue ground with an elaborate gilt foliate border by Michel Barnabé Chauvaux, blue interlaced Ls marks enclosing date letters and painter's marks, 15.3cm max. (2)

Cf. The Royal Collection, no.RCIN 2292 for a garniture of vases with similar scenes from the same design source. The numbering of the barrels is scene on other similar pieces painted by Morin and was considered by Geoffrey de Bellaigue as a characteristic of that artist.