AN ASSEMBLED VINCENNES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE PART TEA SERVICE
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AN ASSEMBLED VINCENNES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE PART TEA SERVICE

CIRCA 1755, BLUE INTERLACED L’S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER B TO ALL, PAINTERS' MARKS FOR VINCENT TAILLANDIER, FRANCOIS BINET AND DENIS LEVE, VARIOUS INCISED LETTERS AND NUMERALS

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AN ASSEMBLED VINCENNES PORCELAIN BLEU CELESTE PART TEA SERVICE
CIRCA 1755, BLUE INTERLACED L’S ENCLOSING DATE LETTER B TO ALL, PAINTERS' MARKS FOR VINCENT TAILLANDIER, FRANCOIS BINET AND DENIS LEVE, VARIOUS INCISED LETTERS AND NUMERALS
Each edged with waves of gilt flowering vine suspending colorful flowers, comprising: an oviform teapot and a cover (théière Calabre et un couvercle); a milk-jug and cover (pot à lait Hébert et couvercle); and three ogiform cups and lobed saucers (gobelets 'Hébert' et soucoupes 'à cinq pans ronds')
5 3/8 in. (13.6 cm.) diameter, the saucers

With Michel Vandermeersch, Paris, 1963.

Specialist note

Examples painted by the same artists in this classic Vincennes pattern were in the collections of Elizabeth Parke Firestone (Christie's, New York, 21-22 March 1991, lot 192); A New England Collection (Christie’s, New York, 5 May 1999, lot 28); and Marjorie Merriweather Post (Liana Paredes Arend, Sèvres Porcelain at Hillwood, Hillwood Museum and Gardens, Washington, D.C., 1998, fig. 45).

Vincent Taillandier is recorded as a flower painter at the Sèvres manufactory from 1753-90. François Binet is recorded as a flower painter from 1750-75 and Denis Levé is recorded as flower painter from 1754-93 and 1795-1805.