Lot Essay
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.