Lot Essay
Claude-Antoine Tardy was active at Sèvres from 1755 to 1795
Details
A SÈVRES PLATEAU À DEUX POT DE CONFITURE
BLUE INTERLACED L'S DATE LETTER FOR 1778 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR TARDY
The shape-oval tray painted in colours with loose bouquets and scattered sprigs within blue line and gilt-dash borders and gilt dentil rims, fitted with two ovoid jam pots with similar decoration (one cover later-- (3)
BLUE INTERLACED L'S DATE LETTER FOR 1778 AND PAINTER'S MARK FOR TARDY
The shape-oval tray painted in colours with loose bouquets and scattered sprigs within blue line and gilt-dash borders and gilt dentil rims, fitted with two ovoid jam pots with similar decoration (one cover later-- (3)
Literature
Cf. Marcel Brunet and Tamara Préaud, Sèvres, des origins à nos jours, fig. 186 for similar example