Artificial soft paste porcelain : France, Italy, Spain and England . ar stylebut more elaborate workmanship, decorated at the sides with modelledcarnations and other flowers painted in natural colours. On eachface is a panel enclosing a figure scene depicting dancers in a park,in the style of Watteau. The ground is a mottled lapis-lazuli blueheightened with gold. The edge of the mouth is embellished withgadroons in white and gold on a blue ground. While the cen-tral paintings are not signed, the remainder of the decoration isknown to be the work of Taillandier. In the Louvre cataloguethe perio
Artificial soft paste porcelain : France, Italy, Spain and England . ar stylebut more elaborate workmanship, decorated at the sides with modelledcarnations and other flowers painted in natural colours. On eachface is a panel enclosing a figure scene depicting dancers in a park,in the style of Watteau. The ground is a mottled lapis-lazuli blueheightened with gold. The edge of the mouth is embellished withgadroons in white and gold on a blue ground. While the cen-tral paintings are not signed, the remainder of the decoration isknown to be the work of Taillandier. In the Louvre cataloguethe period of this piece is given as about 1745, but M. TaxileDoat, the eminent ceramic artist of Sevres, fixes the exact date,according to the revised chronological table of the Count de Chavag-nac, as 1753 (see Frontispiece). The mark is composed of twofoliated, intertwining Ls surmounted by a fleur-de-lys in blueunder the glaze. SEVRES. The manufacture of artificial soft paste porcelain was transferredfrom Vincennes to Sevres in 1756, where it continued to be made until. In the Sevres Museum. 9. Pate Tendre Vase (11 inches in height). Flowers in Relief. Vincennes, France, about 1750.
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