A SEVRES VERT POMME LOBED PLATE (ASSIETTE 'A GUIRLANDES')

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

Details

A SEVRES VERT POMME LOBED PLATE (ASSIETTE 'A GUIRLANDES')
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter G for 1759-1760, painter's mark for Taillandier, incised D
The center with a flower spray, the wide border with a looped green ribbon edged in gilt and enclosing a conforming garland of flowers, heavily tooled flower garlands issuing from each downward curve of the ribbon and centering a green ground lobe, gilt line rim
9 7/8in. (25cm.) diam.

Provenance

Probably from one of two services sold by the factory in 1760: one on 29 March 1760 to Antoine-René de Voyer d'Argenson, marquis de Paulmy; the other throughout the second quarter of 1760 to Mme. Lair.
With Dragesco & Cramoisin, Paris, 1984

Lot Essay

Vincent Taillandier is recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres 1753-1790 as a flower painter and a painter of grounds and patterns after whom several are named.

See The Collection of Charles-Otto Zieseniss, Christie's Paris, 6 December 2001, lot 125 for other similar plates.

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