Two Vincennes Bleu Céleste Ribbon Decorated Porcelain Plates (Assiettes 'à Guirlandes')

Circa 1757

bearing blue interlaced Ls enclosing date letter D and painter's mark of a fleur-de-lis for Taillandier to one, the other unmarked but with incised script Bp; each painted with a flower spray, that of the unmarked example including a tulip, the wide border with a looped gilt-edged bleu celéste ribbon suspending crossed flower garlands or tight bouquets beneath alternate curves 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 and the same mottled turquoise ground filling the scallop behind, with gilt line rim.

Diameter 10 inches.

This lot is located in Chicago.

Provenance:

Dragesco-Cramoisan, Paris, nos. 1231 and 1232, 18 September 1996 (with copy of invoice)

Note:

The present two plates are probably from a service in the possession of M. de Laborde in the 18th century. David Peters suggests that M. de Laborde's service was formed from a delivery of recent stock acquired by Duvaux in 1758. See David Peters, Sèvres Plates and Services of the 18th Century, Little Berkhamsted, 2005, Vol. II, pp. 299-302, service no. 58-1. Between 1 January 1758-1 July 1758, the Sèvres sales records note a delivery to M. Duvaux of 78 assiettes fond bleu celéste et verd, 60 (livres each) 4680 (livres in total) (Vy 2 fol. 65).

Although the factory records do not specify the exact number of green and blue plates in the delivery, we know from the Livre Journal de Lazare Duvaux that the twelve plates delivered to Louis XV (no. 3072) and the six delivered to Mme. de Pompadour (no. 3073) were verd and cost 60 livres each. As the service for M. de Laborde included sixty plates, they must have included examples with bleu céleste ribbons scrolling around the border.

Jean-Joseph de Laborde was a merchant, financier and politician from Bayonne who acquired his fortune through maritime trade, particularly supplying the American colonies, became Fermier Général in 1759 and later financier to the French Court during the Seven Years War.

Vincent Taillandier (active 1753-1790) is recorded at Vincennes and Sèvres as a painter specializing in flowers as well as patterns and ground patterns.

Both in good condition. With negligible wear to the gilding, minor stacking and surface wear.

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Property from the Fred and Kay Krehbiel Collection, Part I

**Two Vincennes Bleu Céleste Ribbon Decorated Porcelain Plates (Assiettes 'à Guirlandes')**

Property from the Fred and Kay Krehbiel Collection, Part I

Two Vincennes Bleu Céleste Ribbon Decorated Porcelain Plates (Assiettes 'à Guirlandes')

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