CIRCA 1768, BLUE INTERLACED L MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER P, PAINTER'S THREE DOTS MARK TO FOOTRIM, PROBABLY FOR JEAN-BAPTISTE TANDART, AND INCISED BP AND NUMERALS

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A SEVRES TWO-HANDLED TRAY (PLATEAU 'COURTEILLE')
CIRCA 1768, BLUE INTERLACED L MARK ENCLOSING DATE LETTER P, PAINTER'S THREE DOTS MARK TO FOOTRIM, PROBABLY FOR JEAN-BAPTISTE TANDART, AND INCISED BP AND NUMERALS
Painted with loose bouquets of flowers within a blue-line and gilt-dash border and gilt-dentil rim (two small flat chips to one corner, minor surface scratches and slight wear to gilding)
12¾ x 9½ in. (32.4 cm. x 23.5 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The plateau 'Courteille' is first recorded in two sizes in the archives in 1758, and déjeuners 'Courteille', trays with accompanying teawares, were purchased by Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour in December of the same year. The model was still in production in the 1780s. There are five variations of the shape, and those without handles and rounded corners were often intended to be mounted in small two-tier tables and were called plateaux 'de chiffonière'. For an example of a tray of the same form as the present lot see Linda H. Roth and Claire Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum: The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, Wadsworth, 2000, pp. 175-178, no. 83.

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