Lot Essay
Jean-Baptiste Tandart (l'aîné) was a painter at Sèvres from 1754 to 1800. This stand is for a broth bowl or écuelle.
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1765, BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER M, BLUE PAINTER'S MARK FOR TANDART, INCISED GC (?)
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A SEVRES BLUE-GROUND SHAPED OVAL STAND (PLATEAU OVALE)
1765, BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER M, BLUE PAINTER'S MARK FOR TANDART, INCISED gc (?)
The ground reserved at each end with kidney-shaped panels painted with three interwoven garlands of laurel, oak and flowers threaded with crossed garden implements, one end with a rake and cythe, the other with a spade and hoe, within gilt ciselé ribbon-tied band cartouches, divided at the sides by crossed branches of gilt laurel threading through strapwork lozenges issuing foliage scrolls, with further gilt scrolls about the central well, the central circular gilt medallion with a quatrefoil foliate panel of oeil de perdrix ornament centred by a flowerhead, gilt band rim (slight scratching to surface of well, minute wear to gilding at edge of well)
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) wide
1765, BLUE INTERLACED LS ENCLOSING DATE LETTER M, BLUE PAINTER'S MARK FOR TANDART, INCISED gc (?)
The ground reserved at each end with kidney-shaped panels painted with three interwoven garlands of laurel, oak and flowers threaded with crossed garden implements, one end with a rake and cythe, the other with a spade and hoe, within gilt ciselé ribbon-tied band cartouches, divided at the sides by crossed branches of gilt laurel threading through strapwork lozenges issuing foliage scrolls, with further gilt scrolls about the central well, the central circular gilt medallion with a quatrefoil foliate panel of oeil de perdrix ornament centred by a flowerhead, gilt band rim (slight scratching to surface of well, minute wear to gilding at edge of well)
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) wide
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