BLUE INTERLACED L'S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER I FOR 1761, PAINTER'S MARK FOR TANDART, INCISED 8

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A SEVRES GREEN-GROUND SAUCER (UN SOUCOUPE, 4EME GRANDEUR)
Blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter I for 1761, painter's mark for Tandart, incised 8
The center with a flower spray, the border with a looped gilt-edged green ribbon and a concentric garland of flowers, the area between each of the six scallops of ribbon with a gilt garland edging a triangular green reserve, gilt dentil rim
4 3/16 in. (10.7 cm.) diameter

Provenance

Possibly from the service à rubans verts made for M. Le Marquis de Paulmy
with Rick Proudman

Lot Essay

Jean-Baptiste Tandart is recorded at Vincennes and Shvres as a flower painter 1754-1803.

The decoration on the present saucer is often confused with that of the service presented by Louis XV to Empress Maria-Theresa of Austria. This service has similar gilt-edged green ribbons entwined to form a figure-8. See anonymous sale, Christie's London, 5 December 1994, lot 103 for two bottle coolers similarly decorated.

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