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

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A SEVRES PORCELAIN TAILLANDIER BLEU CELESTE CUP AND SAUCER (GOBELET 'LITRON' ET SOUCOUPE, 2^E^M^E 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)

Provenance

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

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Lot Essay

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.

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