A SEVRES SKY BLUE TAILLANDIER GROUND TEAPOT AND COVER (THEIERE 'CALABRE' ET SA COUVERCLE)

BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTERS HH FOR 1785, PAINTER'S MARK FOR VINCENT TAILLANDIER, GILDER'S MARK FOR BOILEAU LE JEUNE

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A SEVRES SKY BLUE TAILLANDIER GROUND TEAPOT AND COVER (THEIERE 'CALABRE' ET SA COUVERCLE)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letters hh for 1785, painter's mark for Vincent Taillandier, gilder's mark for Boileau le jeune
The oviform pot with a band of foliate scrolls on the shoulder above the sky-blue ground decorated with oeil-de-perdrix, the cover with gilt berry finial, similarly decorated in concentric bands, gilt line rims
4 3/4in. (12cm.) high

Lot Essay

Vincent Taillandier is recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a flower painter 1753-1790. He is also associated with ground colours, his name being given to the oeil-de-perdrix pattern that he developed and used on the present teapot.

Boileu le jeune is recorded as a gilder at Sèvres 1783-1789

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