Jean-Baptiste Tandart L'Ainé was active at Sèvres as a flower painter from 1754-1800.

Cf. Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, Vol. III, p. 1070

The present tray was designed for the lower gallery of a table en chiffonière. It is being sold set into into an ormolu-mounted green lacquer example based on an 18th century model by the noted ébeniste Bernard Van Risen Burgh.