Sale 6432
London
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9 July 2001
Price realised
GBP 3,525
Estimate
A Sevres green-ground plate 1756, blue interlaced L's enclosing date letter D, painter's mark of Taillandier, incised script L The centre with a loose bouquet of fruit and flowers within a mottled green border moulded with C-scrolls and with three cartouches with birds among trees and shrubs edged with gilt foliage scrolls and flowers between gilt line borders (some very minor wear to gilding) 9¾ in. (24.7 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Anon., sale Sotheby's, 5th March 1985, lot 103
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Vincent Taillandier, active at Sèvres 1753-90.
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