A Sèvres porcelain bleu nouveau fond 'Taillandier' small cup and saucer (Gobelet 'litron' et soucoupe) circa 1765

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Description

height cup 1 3/4 in.; diameter 1 3/4 in; diameter saucer 4 1/4 in.
4.5 cm; 4.5 cm; 11 cm

painted with figures at work before building in a landscape within a chased gilt band, reserved on the blue ground gilt with dots forming circlets. With blue interlaced Ls enclosing date letter M for 1765, painter's mark for Vielliard père.

Provenance

Le Tallec collection, sold, Ader Picard Tajan, November 8-9, 1990, lot 806

Catalogue Note

André-Vincent Vieliard was active at Vincennes and Sèvres as a landscape painter 1752-1790.