Lot Essay
Pierre-Antoine Méreaud was a painter (of flowers and patterns) and gilder, active at Sèvres 1754-91
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1764, BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER L, PAINTER'S MARK S FOR P-A. MÉREAUD, INCISED I AND 8 TO CUP AND OU TO SAUCER
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A Sevres cup and trembleuse saucer
1764, blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter L, painter's mark s for P-A. Méreaud, incised i and 8 to cup and ou to saucer
The cup of tapering cylindrical form with entwined double loop handle with gilt foliage terminals, painted with garlands of flowers suspended from a border with two blue-ground white dot-ornament gilt diaper panels between purple and gilt bands, divided by two oval quatrefoil gilt panels with garlands of laurel enclosing gilt dot-ornament about two purple flowerhead medallions, the saucer similarly decorated, gilt dentil rims (cup with wear to gilt rim, saucer with slight wear to gilt rim)
1764, blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter L, painter's mark s for P-A. Méreaud, incised i and 8 to cup and ou to saucer
The cup of tapering cylindrical form with entwined double loop handle with gilt foliage terminals, painted with garlands of flowers suspended from a border with two blue-ground white dot-ornament gilt diaper panels between purple and gilt bands, divided by two oval quatrefoil gilt panels with garlands of laurel enclosing gilt dot-ornament about two purple flowerhead medallions, the saucer similarly decorated, gilt dentil rims (cup with wear to gilt rim, saucer with slight wear to gilt rim)
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