bearing blue interlaced Ls enclosing date letter K, painter’s mark of an anchor for Buteux and incised M; the small squat pear-shaped pot with flat slightly domed cover hinged to the loop handle with a silver-gilt mount and shell-shaped thumb rest, painted front and back either with a trophy emblematic of Autumn (ribbon-tied thyrsus, wine ewer, fruiting vine) or of Spring (pilgrim’s straw hat with scallop shells on the brim, walking stick, Cupid’s arrow and flaming torch, flower garland) reserved on the bleu céleste ground within a concentric gilt ciselé band and a further trailing vine, the cover with a less elaborate trophy, the handle and applied spout left in the white within gilt banding, with gilt dentil rims.