Live Auction 2350500 Years: Decorative Arts Europe, Including Oriental Carpets
A SEVRES PORCELAIN TAILLANDIER BLEU CELESTE CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)
Lot 508

A SEVRES PORCELAIN TAILLANDIER BLEU CELESTE CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)

CIRCA 1770, BLUE INTERLACED L'S, PAINTER'S MARK FOR TAILLANDIER, GILDER'S MARK FOR CHAUVAUX L'AINE, INCISED B TO THE CUP

Closed22 October 2010

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN TAILLANDIER BLEU CELESTE CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 2EME GRANDEUR)
CIRCA 1770, BLUE INTERLACED L'S, PAINTER'S MARK FOR TAILLANDIER, GILDER'S MARK FOR CHAUVAUX L'AINE, INCISED B TO THE CUP
Painted with fruit, flowers and trophies of love within gilt garlands, reserved within gilt lines on the pointillé ground, the border with oval panels of gilt laurel linked with similar garlands
5½ in. (13.9 cm.) diameter (2)

Oscar Dusendschon, Geneva; Sotheby, London, 6 December 1960, lot 60.
With The Antique Porcelain Company, Ltd., London.
Sir J.H. Plumb, Cambridge.

Specialist note

Vincent Taillandier is recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a painter of flowers and ground patterns, 1753-90.
Michel-Barnabé Chauvaux, recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a gilder, 1752-88.