A SEVRES TEAPOT AND COVER (THEIERE 'CALABRE' ET COUVERCLE)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER P FOR 1768, PAINTER'S MARK FOR MÉREAUD LE JEUNE

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A SEVRES TEAPOT AND COVER (THEIERE 'CALABRE' ET COUVERCLE)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter P for 1768, painter's mark for Méreaud le jeune
The oviform pot with ear handle and angled spout, the shoulder with a wide band of single pink roses within gilt laurel wreaths and linked by entwined blue ribbons and berried laurel, the laurel extending to spiral around the spout, the band edged with a gilt seeded ground and further gilt dentil rim, the slightly domed cover with a similar band centering the ranunculus finial
60in. (16cm.) high

Provenance

Anon. sale; Christie's, Monaco, 7 December 1987, lot 208

Lot Essay

Charles-Louis Méreaud, le jeune, recorded 1756-1780 as a painter specializing in flowers and patterns.

The present teapot and cover is from a déjeuner of which the tray is in the collection of Waddesdon Manor [Tamara Préaud and Marcelle Brunet, Sèvres, des origines à nos jours, Paris, 1978, no. 156]. One cup and saucer was sold as lot 209 in the same Christie's Monaco sale in which the present pot was acquired. A second cup and saucer, acquired circa 1984, is now in a private American collection.

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