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Painted in camaïeu pourpre with putti in clouds at various pursuits after François Boucher, comprising:
A tray (plateau Bouret or plateau de tasses à glace à ornements)
A teapot and cover (théière Calabre)
A sugar-bowl and cover (pot à sucre Calabre)
A two-handled cup and saucer (tasse à toilette et soucoupe)
814 in. (20.9 cm.) wide, the tray
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Jacques-François Micaud (père) was a painter of flowers, figures and patterns at Sèvres from 1757 to 1810. For a tray with very similar puce camaïeu putti on clouds by him, see Joanna Gwilt, Vincennes and Early Sèvres Porcelain from the Belvedere Collection, London, 2014, pp. 204-205. For a sugar-bowl and a teapot of the same form as the present lot, both with similar decoration of putti among clouds, see Tamara Préaud, Porcelaines de Vincennes, Les Origines de Sèvres, Grand Palais October 1977 – January 1978 Exhibition Catalogue, Paris, 1977, p. 84, fig. 191 (the sugar-bowl) and p. 133, fig. 393 (the teapot). The scene on the present teapot with a putto playing drums is derived from Pierre Aveline’s engraving after François Boucher (this engraving is illustrated by Marie-Laure de Rochebrune, Charles Nicolas Dodin, Château de Versailles May-September 2012 Exhibition Catalogue, Paris, 2012, p. 38).

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