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A Sèvres bleu nouveau cabaret
painted with alternate sprays of roses and leafy garlands within gilt shaped oval panels below a border gilt with scrolls and sablés, comprising: a lobed tray (déjeuner 'du roi'), an ogee sugar-bowl and cover (pot à sucre), and a cup and saucer (goblet 'litron' et soucoupe), incised marks, the tray and cup and saucer with blue interlaced Ls marks, enclosing date letters for 1772, the tray with painter's mark 6 for Bertrand, the cup and saucer with painter's mark ' for Charles-Louis Méreand le Jeune (the sugar bowl with chips to finial, the saucer broken and restored, light rubbing to gilding generally)
See colour plate and front cover illustration
painted with alternate sprays of roses and leafy garlands within gilt shaped oval panels below a border gilt with scrolls and sablés, comprising: a lobed tray (déjeuner 'du roi'), an ogee sugar-bowl and cover (pot à sucre), and a cup and saucer (goblet 'litron' et soucoupe), incised marks, the tray and cup and saucer with blue interlaced Ls marks, enclosing date letters for 1772, the tray with painter's mark 6 for Bertrand, the cup and saucer with painter's mark ' for Charles-Louis Méreand le Jeune (the sugar bowl with chips to finial, the saucer broken and restored, light rubbing to gilding generally)
See colour plate and front cover illustration