A Sevres porcelain tea cup and saucer, interlace L mark with Q, 1769, gobelet Bouillard form, the cup painted by Louis Jean Thevenet, with floral garland swags suspended by raised gilt rings from an entwined ribbon and thread band, the outer rim with a blue ground speckled border between gilt lines, the saucer probably by the same hand, 6cm high, 13cm diameter Note: Thevenet worked at the Sevres factory from around 1750 until 1778 and painted tea services including the well known set for David Garrick now at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. See: Dauteman, C C, 1986, Sevres Porcelain; Makers and Marks of the Eighteenth Century, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, p.153, and the Louvre Museum, Paris, accession TH1232 for examples of the artist's mark