A GILT METAL-MOUNTED SEVRES TAILLANDIER GREEN-GROUND TEAPOT AND COVER (THEIERE 'CALABRE' ET SON COUVERCLE)
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A GILT METAL-MOUNTED SEVRES TAILLANDIER GREEN-GROUND TEAPOT AND COVER (THEIERE 'CALABRE' ET SON COUVERCLE)

CIRCA 1765-1770, UNMARKED, INCISED I

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A GILT METAL-MOUNTED SEVRES TAILLANDIER GREEN-GROUND TEAPOT AND COVER (THEIERE 'CALABRE' ET SON COUVERCLE)
Circa 1765-1770, unmarked, incised I
Painted on both sides in rich shades with a wreath of various flowers, pink roses, and berried rosemary suspended from a bow-tied ribbon and reserved within a gilt ciselé band further gilt on the shoulder with a Taillandier band edged with a trailing vine, the cover flower finial centering a similar border, the spot wrapped with a flowering vine, its mouth with a gilt metal mount
4 1/8 in. (10.4 cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

See Rosalind Savill, The Wallace Collection, Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, London, 1988, vol. II, pp.669-670, no. C438 for a two-handled cup, cover and saucer painted with three similar wreaths suspended from bows, these reserved on a Taillandier ground.

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