A SÈVRES (HARD PASTE) SHELL-SHAPED DISH (compotier à coquille), the centre with the initials CL formed from garlands of flowers below a wreath of pink roses, the border with two baskets of flowers, four wreaths of berried laurel and two panels gilt with birds perched in branches and in flight within a blue border with gilt foliage and gilt dentil rim (three retouched rim chips to handle, slight flaking to gilding), sepia interlaced L mark and n, circa 1775, part of the decoration perhaps later