Ormolu-Mounted Sèvres Style Lidded Jar

of gently tapering cylindrical form, the domed cover with apple finial, richly painted with alternate bands of gilt diaper-pattern rocaille cartouches suspending stylised acanthus enriched with gilding and with garlands of flowers looped around blue paterae; with spurious interlaced Ls and date-letter B, for 1754/5, and painter’s mark A