A Sèvres saucer (soucoupe) c.1777, painted to the well with a Chinese figure seated cross-legged on a table beside trees, the border with a wide gilt design of stylized creatures and abstract designs, yellow crowned interlaced Ls mark enclosing AZ over the painter's mark AS probably for Charles-Eloi Asselin the A possible for Armand jeune, 12.5cm. Cf. Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol. II, no.223, pp.843-5, for a detailed research of this pattern, believed to have been designed by Pierre-Louis-Philippe Armand the Younger. See also Sotheby's, Paris, 19th December 2017, lot 449 for a similar can and saucer.
A Sèvres saucer (soucoupe) c.1777, painted to the well with a Chinese figure seated cross-legged on a table beside trees, the border with a wide gilt design of stylized creatures and abstract designs, yellow crowned interlaced Ls mark enclosing AZ over the painter's mark AS probably for Charles-Eloi Asselin the A possible for Armand jeune, 12.5cm. Cf. Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue, French Porcelain in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol. II, no.223, pp.843-5, for a detailed research of this pattern, believed to have been designed by Pierre-Louis-Philippe Armand the Younger. See also Sotheby's, Paris, 19th December 2017, lot 449 for a similar can and saucer.
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