A PAIR OF SEVRES APPLE-GREEN GROUND OVAL LIQUEUR COOLERS (SEAUX A LIQUEUR OVAL)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER H FOR 1760 TO BOTH, PAINTER'S MARK FOR MREAUD, LE JEUNE, ONE INCISED (SPERM) * F AND 1P, THE OTHER INCISED 1P

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A PAIR OF SEVRES APPLE-GREEN GROUND OVAL LIQUEUR COOLERS (SEAUX A LIQUEUR OVAL)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter H for 1760 to both, painter's mark for Mreaud, le jeune, one incised (sperm) * f and 1P, the other incised 1P
Painted with inverted pear-shaped panels of fruit and flowers reserved against a green ground within elaborate foliate cartouches suspending chased branches of flowers, each fitted with a pierced divider
12in. (31.7cm.) wide, overall
Mreaud, Charles-Louis (2)

Provenance

Ren Fribourg Collection; Sotheby & Co., London, 26 June 1963,
lot 55
Sir John Plumb F.B.A., no. 39

Lot Essay

Charles-Louis Mreaud, recorded at Svres as a painter of flowers and patterns, 1756-1780.

For a similar pair previously in the collection of the Earl of Harewood, see Christie's London, 1 July 1965, lot 1, illus., plate 10

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