Lot Essay
Claude-Antoine Tardy was a painter of flowers at Sèvres from 1757-95.
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CIRCA 1776, MANGANESE INTERLACED L'S TO BOTH ENCLOSING DATE LETTER Y, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR TARDY, GILDER'S MARK, INDISTINCT INCISED MARKS
Details
A PAIR OF SEVRES BOURDALOUES (POTS DE CHAMBRE OVALE)
CIRCA 1776, MANGANESE INTERLACED L'S TO BOTH ENCLOSING DATE LETTER Y, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR TARDY, GILDER'S MARK, INDISTINCT INCISED MARKS
Each of typical shaped tapering oval form with loop handle, painted with bouquets below gilt dentil rims
8 5/8 in. (22.2 cm.) wide (2)
CIRCA 1776, MANGANESE INTERLACED L'S TO BOTH ENCLOSING DATE LETTER Y, PAINTER'S MARKS FOR TARDY, GILDER'S MARK, INDISTINCT INCISED MARKS
Each of typical shaped tapering oval form with loop handle, painted with bouquets below gilt dentil rims
8 5/8 in. (22.2 cm.) wide (2)
Provenance
Possibly acquired by Lady Sarah Spencer (1838-1919) for 28 St. James's Place, and removed to Althorp circa 1923 by Albert Edward John, 7th Earl Spencer (1892-1975).
Literature
W.B. Honey, Catalogue of the Porcelain and Pottery both Oriental and European in the Collection of Earl Spencer at Althorp, 1937, no. 468
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