BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS KK FOR 1787, PAINTER'S MARK FOR MADAME TAILLANDIER

Details

A SEVRES YELLOW-GROUND PLATE
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letters KK for 1787, painter's mark for Madame Taillandier
The center painted with scattered morning glories, the shaped border with a vine of the same flower between yellow bands edged in carmine and painted with a thorny vine, gilt line rim
9½ in. (24.2 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Very likely from the service described as service fond jonquille, peint en volubilis purchased by Lord Eden 7 August 1787
His Excellency Ilhamy Hussein Pacha, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat; Ader-Tajan, Paris, 15/18 March 1993, lot 975 (part)
Collection Charles Otto Zieseniss,; Christie's, Paris, 5 December 2001, lot 301

Lot Essay

For further information on the service to which the present plate belongs, see Aileen Dawson's article in Apollo, April 1980, p. 296.

Madame Geneviève Taillandier is recordeD at Sèvres as a painter specializing in flowers, ground patterns and other decorative patterns 1774-1798.

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