A SÈVRES TWO-HANDLED BLEU NOUVEAU ÉCUELLE, COVER AND STAND (écuelle 'ronde tournée' et plateau 'ovale') painted with bouquets of full-blown garden flowers and fruit including ripe figs, grapes, apples, pears and a pomegranate within kidney shaped panels with broad gilt bands, the border with a band of entwined gilt foliage below seeded panels and gilt line rims, the entwined branch handles and green branch finial enriched with gilding (slight rubbing to gilt well of stand), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter T for 1772, painter's mark a cross for Micaud, incised ja and ng to bowl and lv to stand

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A SÈVRES TWO-HANDLED BLEU NOUVEAU ÉCUELLE, COVER AND STAND (écuelle 'ronde tournée' et plateau 'ovale') painted with bouquets of full-blown garden flowers and fruit including ripe figs, grapes, apples, pears and a pomegranate within kidney shaped panels with broad gilt bands, the border with a band of entwined gilt foliage below seeded panels and gilt line rims, the entwined branch handles and green branch finial enriched with gilding (slight rubbing to gilt well of stand), blue interlaced L marks enclosing date letter T for 1772, painter's mark a cross for Micaud, incised ja and ng to bowl and lv to stand
the stand 22.5cm. wide

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Jacques-François Micaud working at Sèvres 1757-1810

Made in four sizes, the stand is of the second size

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