A Sèvres small seau à demi bouteille from the Pavlovsk Service c.1774

A Sèvres small seau à demi bouteille from the Pavlovsk Service c.1774, the U-shaped form with two scroll handles, painted with pink rose sprigs beneath a band of oval panels containing similar sprigs reserved on a oeil de perdrix ground, crowned interlaced LL mark, incised with the initials MG and AP, 11.5cm.

It is believed that this service was sold to the Marquis de Juigné in 1775 immediately prior to his becoming the French Ambassador in Russia. Within five years he had gifted it to Grand Duke Paul, son of Catherine the Great. Most of this service remains today at the Palace of Pavlovsk, including an identical bottle cooler.