Lot Essay
Jacques-François Micaud, working period 1757-1810
DATE LETTER O (?) FOR 1767
Details
A Sèvres coffee-can and saucer
Date letter o (?) for 1767
Painted with a blue band band gilt with trailing foliage flanked by two bands of garden flowers, between claret bands gilt with trailing flower-sprays and palm fronds, with gilt line rims and with a gilt-edged ear-shaped handle, blue interlaced L marks, one with date letter o(?), painter's mark of a cross of Micaud, the saucer with incised inverted S
Date letter o (?) for 1767
Painted with a blue band band gilt with trailing foliage flanked by two bands of garden flowers, between claret bands gilt with trailing flower-sprays and palm fronds, with gilt line rims and with a gilt-edged ear-shaped handle, blue interlaced L marks, one with date letter o(?), painter's mark of a cross of Micaud, the saucer with incised inverted S
Provenance
Anon., sale Christie's, 2 October 1989, lot 209