A SÈVRES SILVER-GILT MOUNTED BALUSTER EWER AND SHALLOW DOMED COVER, the loop handle with cast shell and foliage thumbpiece, the body with two broad bands of interlocking wreaths of flowers and green and gilt myrtle on a seeded gilt ground between blue bands gilt with S-scrolls and foliage dividing a broad band of interlaced swags of garden flowers, the lower part with a band of blue oeil-de-pedrix on a gilt seeded ground, the cover similarly decorated (some slight rubbing to gilt rim of cover), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter P for 1768, painter's mark of a cross for Micaud, incised FB

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A SÈVRES SILVER-GILT MOUNTED BALUSTER EWER AND SHALLOW DOMED COVER, the loop handle with cast shell and foliage thumbpiece, the body with two broad bands of interlocking wreaths of flowers and green and gilt myrtle on a seeded gilt ground between blue bands gilt with S-scrolls and foliage dividing a broad band of interlaced swags of garden flowers, the lower part with a band of blue oeil-de-pedrix on a gilt seeded ground, the cover similarly decorated (some slight rubbing to gilt rim of cover), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter P for 1768, painter's mark of a cross for Micaud, incised FB
20cm. high overall

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Jacques-François Micaud, working period 1757-1810

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