A SEVRES FOND TAILLANDIER COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 4EME GRANDEUR)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER P FOR 1768, PAINTER'S MARK FOR MICAUD, THE SAUCER INCISED SJO

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A SEVRES FOND TAILLANDIER COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 4EME GRANDEUR)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter P for 1768, painter's mark for Micaud, the saucer incised Sjo
Painted with a scrolling vine of berried laurel and cluster of flowers reserved with blue scalloped bands edged with gilt and further reserved on the gilt Taillandier ground of pink and oeil-de-perdrix on a gilt seeded ground (2)

Provenance

Collection d'un amateur franais; Sotheby's, Monaco, 3 March 1990, lot 165

Lot Essay

Jacques-Franois Michaud, pre, active at Svres as a painter of flowers and patterns, 1757-1810.

See Edouard Garnier, The Soft-Paste Porcelain of Svres, London, 1892, plate XV, for a cup and saucer then in the collection of Louis Watelin from the same service as the present example but painted the previous year.

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