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Lot Description

A Sèvres Green Ribbon Decorated Porcelain Plate (Assiette 'à Guirlandes')

Circa 1760

bearing blue interlaced Ls enclosing date letter G, painter's mark of a fleur-de-lis for Taillandier and incised 6o; painted with a flower spray, the wide border with a looped gilt-edged green ribbon suspending flower garlands arching into the curve of the loop, the scalloped rim of the plate molded with a trailing vine, gilt ciselé crossed flowering branches at the intersection of each ribbon loop, the same green filling the scallop behind, with gilt line rim.
Diameter 10 inches.

This lot is located in Chicago.

Provenance:
Dragesco-Cramoisan, Paris, no. D.1375, 14 June 1999 (purchased at the International Ceramics Fair, London; with copy of invoice)

Note:
Two services were made at Sèvres in 1760 to which the present plate may belong:

One service, its 48 plates priced at 30 livres each, was sold on 29 March to the Marquis de Paulmy. Antoine-René de Voyer d'Argenson, Marquis de Paulmy, was Minister of War (1757-1758), French Ambassador to Poland (1760-1764), Ambassador Extraordinary to Saxony (1760-1763) and Ambassador to Venice (1767-1768).

A second service, its 48 plates for some reason priced at double or 60 livres, was sold during the second quarter of 1760 to Madame Lair. Madame Marie Herbin Lair was a marchand-mercier whose name appears regularly in the Sèvres sales records. She was the widow of Michel-Joseph Lair and successor in business to Gilles Bazin, rue de Roule, Paris.

Both services are discussed by David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, pp. 317-320, service nos. 60-1 and 60-2 respectively.

Three plates from one of these two services, each with flowers painted by Louis-Jean Thévenet, were sold by Christie's, London on 12 May 2010, lot 235; 3 June 2014, lot 38 and 24 November 2014, lot 13. The present example was painted by his colleague Vincent Taillandier (active 1753-1790), recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a painter specializing in flowers as well as patterns and ground patterns.

Condition Report

Light wear to the gilding edging the ribbon; light surface scratches and stacking wear. Examination under UV light does not show evidence of breaks nor restoration. Additional images available upon request.

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