Plate

1764-1774

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Jean-Baptiste Tandart, Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, and others

Plate

Painter: Jean-Baptiste Tandart
Manufacturer: Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Previously attributed to: Charles Tandart

Plate

1764-1774

Physical Qualities Soft-paste porcelain, painted with overglaze enamels and gold, 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm.)

Credit Line Gift of Kenneth S. Battye, Baltimore

Object Number 2007.232

Round plate with bleu celeste ground rim; three reserves in rim painted with overglaze polychrome enamel birds; center painted with roses in polychrome enamels with a gilt circle wound loosely with vines; chased gold swags connect reserves

The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 2007; Kenneth S. Battye, Baltimore

"Gifts of Art," BMA Today, Winter 2008-2009, pp. 12-13, ill. p. 12.

Inscribed: Incised mark "SI"

Markings: Marks on underside of plate: Blue-glaze interlaced Ls enclosing R for 1770 3 blue dots below L’s, painter’s mark for Jean-Baptiste Tandart (active 1754-1800)