Lot 149 , A Sevres porcelain part tea service, c.1772-3, One teacup handle repaired

A Sevres porcelain part tea service, c.1772-3,
each piece painted with flower festoons within puce and pink enamel tram lines with gilt trails and a blue dotted and banded border, comprising 12 tea cups, 8 saucers, a teapot and cover, 16.5 cm high, a cream jug, a lidded sucrier and a slops bowl, enamelled interlaced Ls, decorators marks V Y, interlaced SS and possibly Thevenet pere,
One teacup handle repaired
£1,800-2,200

Condition:
The covered Sugar bowl has a wide splinter chip with associated stained hairline crack extending down the body and there is some staining to one side, the cover is in good condition however. The teapot has slight wear on the gilding on the rim otherwise in good condition. The milk jug is in good condition. The slops bowl has some wear to the glaze on the interior and a little wear to the gilding on the rim in places, otherwise in good condition. Most of the tea cups have a little bit of wear to the gilding on the rims and one of the tea cups has a badly broken and rivet repaired handle. The saucers have a little bit of a scratching and wear to the centres where they have been used, otherwise in good condition.

Sold for £1,900