Each painted with swags of foliage and puce and yellow flowers within bands of gilt-edged blue ribbons and further gilt-seeded panels of oeil-de-perdrix
8 in. (20.3 cm.) diameter, the stand

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Jacques-François Micaud was one of the factory's most talented painters of flowers and patterns, active at Sèvres from 1757 to 1810. The majority of his work was on tea services and useful wares but he occasionally decorated vases and plaques for furniture. From the 1770s, his floral compositions became more ambitious and included still-lives of flowers and fruit with vases and baskets. For further discussion of Micaud's career at Sèvres see R. Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. III, pp. 1049-50.