Live Auction 10397Centuries of Style: Silver, European Ceramics, Portrait Miniatures and Gold Boxes
A SEVRES ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND (ECUELLE 'RONDE TOURNEE', PLATEAU 'OVALE' ET COUVERCLE, 4EME GRANDEUR)
Lot 81

A SEVRES ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND (ECUELLE 'RONDE TOURNEE', PLATEAU 'OVALE' ET COUVERCLE, 4EME GRANDEUR)

CIRCA 1763 OR 1770, BLUE INTERLACED L MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER K OR R AND PAINTER'S COMMA MARK TO STAND FOR CHARLES-LOUIS MEREAUD, INCISED JP TO STAND

Closed3 June 2015

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GBP 5,250

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A SEVRES ECUELLE, COVER AND STAND (ECUELLE 'RONDE TOURNEE', PLATEAU 'OVALE' ET COUVERCLE, 4EME GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1763 OR 1770, BLUE INTERLACED L MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER K OR R AND PAINTER'S COMMA MARK TO STAND FOR CHARLES-LOUIS MEREAUD, INCISED JP TO STAND
Decorated with a border of stylised blue and gilt flowerheads and grass fronds between red and gilt-line arched borders entwined with a berried garland, below a blue-ground border with gilt dot and trelliswork ornament, gilt dentil rims (minor wear to gilding)
6 in. (15.2 cm.) wide

Specialist note

Charles-Louis Méraud was a painter of flowers and patterns at Sèvres from 1756 to 1780. For a small cup and saucer and tray dated 1763 and with the same border design see Marie-Noël Pinot de Villechenon, Sèvres Porcelain from the Sèvres Museum 1740 to the Present Day, Paris, 1993, p. 35, fig. 34.