Lot Essay
Pierre-Antoine Méreau (Méreau Aîné) was active at Sèvres as a painter and gilder specializing in flowers, monograms, inscriptions and heraldic motifs 1754-1791
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A SÈVRES HARD-PASTE CREAM-JUG (POT Á LAIT Á PIEDS)
CROWNED BLUE-INTERLACED L'S AND DATE LETTERS FF FOR 1783, PAINTER'S MARK FOR MÉREAU AÎNÉ
With branch handle and feet, painted in colours with flower garlands interlaced with berried laurel beneath a blue marbled band gilt with chevrons, the lower section with blue zig-zag and gilt dot
--4½in. (11.4cm.) high
CROWNED BLUE-INTERLACED L'S AND DATE LETTERS FF FOR 1783, PAINTER'S MARK FOR MÉREAU AÎNÉ
With branch handle and feet, painted in colours with flower garlands interlaced with berried laurel beneath a blue marbled band gilt with chevrons, the lower section with blue zig-zag and gilt dot
--4½in. (11.4cm.) high