the cup with iron-red crowned interlaced Ls enclosing date letter Z above painter’s mark LG for Legrand, further incised CS, the saucer with iron-red crowned interlaced Ls, painter’s mark BY probably for Bailly fils, further incised SC; both richly painted and gilt with chinoiserie figures, those on the cup and the border of the saucer at leisure pursuits, reserved within gilt-banded angled panels on the lavender ground which is further decorated with a green ribbon trellis having carmine flowerheads at the angles, the trellis on the cup enclosing gilt oeil-de-perdrix and that on the saucer enclosing four reserved white dots, exhibiting a trailing vine of flowers between gilt bands at all rims and enclosing the central saucer decoration showing two cranes in a garden, the bands on the cup chased.
Height of cup 3 inches; diameter of saucer 6 1/4 inches.