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Lot Essay
Vincent Taillandier, recorded at Vincennes and Sevres 1753-1790 as a painter specializing in flowers and ground patterns
The color combination of blue and green is described in the records as fond bleu et verd, saffre et verd and lapis et verd. It is unclear whether this refers to three different shades of blue, or different names for the same shade. See Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, 2000, cat. no. 84 for a detailed discussion of this combination of ground colors which first appears in the factory records in 1758.
The color combination of blue and green is described in the records as fond bleu et verd, saffre et verd and lapis et verd. It is unclear whether this refers to three different shades of blue, or different names for the same shade. See Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French Eighteenth-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, 2000, cat. no. 84 for a detailed discussion of this combination of ground colors which first appears in the factory records in 1758.