A SEVRES LOBED OVAL TRAY (PLATEAU LONG UNI)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER G FOR 1759-1760, PAINTER'S MARK FOR TAILLANDIER, INCISED SCRIPT JP

Details

A SEVRES LOBED OVAL TRAY (PLATEAU LONG UNI)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter G for 1759-1760, painter's mark for Taillandier, incised script jp
Painted with blue bows suspending flower garlands to form an oblong hexagon and centering a similar flower spray, gilt dentil rim
7in. (17.6cm.) long

Provenance

With Vandermeersch, Paris
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, New York
Anon. sale; Sotheby's New York, 17 November 1984, lot 68

Literature

C. Carl Dauterman, The Wrightsman Collection: Porcelain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1970, no. 87, p. 219

Lot Essay

Carl Dauterman, in his catalogue of The Wrightsman Collection, described the present piece as a 'Tray for a Dressing Table'. It is similar to a Plateau de roi but with lobed ends. See Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, Eighteenth Century French Porcelain in the Wadsworth Atheneum, The J.P. Morgan Collection, Hartford, 2000, no. 85 for a virtually identically decorated déjeuner also with date letter G and painter's marks for Taillandier.

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