A soft-paste porcelain teapot and cover, possibly made by the Sevres porcelain factory, France, 18th century, decorated in enamel colours with landscape scenes, embellished later with a coat of arms. Part of a tea set of ten pieces, consisting of a teapot, sugar bowl and four tea cups and saucers.

Teapot and cover of soft-paste porcelain painted with enamels and gilded. Painted with landscape scenes inside gilded floral reserves on a green and gold diamond pattern, the lid surmounted with a flower terminal.

Bequeathed by Mr Roger Pemberton

The set to which this teapot belongs appears to be a composite of 18th-century Sèvres pieces with original decoration that have been later embellished, and a number of pieces that are possibly blanks sold by Sèvres in the early-19th century, or a different manufactory altogether, that have been entirely decorated in the 19th century. The coats of arms found on all the pieces have been added later to suggest a royal link to Marie Louise Élisabeth of France (1727–1759), who was the eldest daughter of Louis XV.

The set is accompanied by a note from a Charlotte Nevill and dated 1900, which states: 'This Sèvres China (6 pieces) belonged to my Father; he bought it from Paris when he was at the Embassy there as Chaplain to Lord Whitworth in 1803. It belonged to Princess Elizabeth of Frances (Sister of Louis 16th). She and Marie Antoinette were guillotined in 1793. This china belongs to my nephew Col. A. R. Pemberton. It was given to him by his Father. Charlotte Nevill, 1900'.

This teapot is possibly a genuine 18th century piece of Sèvres porcelain with decoration added later in the 19th century.

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