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A Sèvres coffee-can and saucer, circa 1780/85.

Each is painted with a band of formal scrolling foliage reserved on a pale green-striped orange ground detailed in gilding.

Both carry interlaced Ls and LG marks on the base and the saucer also carries a crown and an applied sticker with the name I. Exeter and the date 1901.

Isabella Exeter (1857-1917) was the widow of Brownlow, 4th Marquess of Exeter (1849-1898).

1901 was the year in which her son William, 5th Marquess of Exeter (1876-1956) was married to Myra Orde Powlett (1879-1973).

REFERENCE: CER0683

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