Early Sevres Porcelain tête-a-tête set from Salisbury museum collection,provenance Lady Zia Wernher, Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire

XVIII century Sevres porcelain service in Celeste blue painted with a basket of mixed flowers over crossed palm leaves and cornflowers, within a gilt cartouche with scrollwork designs, the borders with further scrollwork and garlands of flowers in gilt, comprising a twin handled tray, two coffee cans and saucers, and a cream jug on three feet, saucers and tray with interlaced blue LL mark, painted mark 9 for Merault and date letter Z for 1776, cups with grey LL mark and signs of other marks underneath, jug unmarked, tray with old paper label for ‘Salisbury & South Wilts Museum, Loan Collection 187 Sir F Bathurst Proprietor’

Measurements:
Tray is 31 cm wide, cups 6cm high, saucers 12.2 cm diameter, jug 9.6 cm high

Provenance:
Lady Zia Wernher, Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire Thence.

Condition: Perfect