A SÈVRES BLUE NOUVEAU COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (gobélet litron et soucoupe) painted with baskets of fruit and flowers including a cut melon, peaches, grapes, roses, peonies and narcissus on marble ledges within broad gilt line panels, the ground gilt with luxuriant scrolling flowering branches (two slight footrim chips to can, very slight rubbing to saucer), blue interlaced L marks, painter's mark of a cross for Micaud and gilder's mark for Le Guay, incised 36/9 to can and 37 to saucer, circa 1778

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A SÈVRES BLUE NOUVEAU COFFEE-CAN AND SAUCER (gobélet litron et soucoupe) painted with baskets of fruit and flowers including a cut melon, peaches, grapes, roses, peonies and narcissus on marble ledges within broad gilt line panels, the ground gilt with luxuriant scrolling flowering branches (two slight footrim chips to can, very slight rubbing to saucer), blue interlaced L marks, painter's mark of a cross for Micaud and gilder's mark for Le Guay, incised 36/9 to can and 37 to saucer, circa 1778

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Jacques-François Micaud painter of flowers, working 1757-1810

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