EACH WITH BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING THE PAINTER'S MARK FOR MICAUD, THE DATE 1774 INSCRIBED BELOW

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A PAIR OF SEVRES FLOWER STILL LIFE PAINTINGS (TABLEAUX)
Each with blue interlaced L's enclosing the painter's mark for Micaud, the date 1774 inscribed below
Each finely painted with a lust still life of peonies, roses, tulips, narcissus, cornflowers, anemones, carnations, lilacs and other flowers in a basket set on a purple marble ledge
5½ x 8¼ in. (14 x 21 cm.), within deep fluted giltwood frames of the period (2)

Provenance

J. Pierpont Morgan, no. P.M.1746.A&B, in the collection prior to 1910
By descent to his son, 1913
J. Pierpont Morgan, Jr.; Parke Bernet Galleries, New York, 8 January 1944, lot 488 ($2,100 in the same frames and as attributed to Girard von Spaendonk)
By descent to the present owner

Literature

Comte Xavier de Chavagnac, Catalogue des Porcelaines Françaises de M. J. Pierpont Morgan, Paris, 1910, no. 150, pl. XLV (illustrated in the same frames)

Exhibited

New York, NY, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1910-1915

Lot Essay

The Shères factory records differentiate between plaques mounted in furniture (plaques) and those intended to be hung on the wall as paintings (tableaux).

The present pair of tableaux are found in the overtime payment records or travaux extraordinaires of 1774 for Jacques-François Micaud phre, described as 2 Plaques 1ere gr. Fond et tableaux fleurs à 240 livres. The artist is recorded at Sèvres as a flower painter 1757-1810. His mark of a stiff X with serifs is often confused with that of Philippe Xhrouet, a flower painter active 1750-1775 whose mark is a loosely executed X with no serifs.

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