Physical Qualities
Soft-paste porcelain, painted with overglaze enamels and gold, 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Kenneth S. Battye, Baltimore
Object Number
2007.231
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
Inscribed: Incised "22"
Markings: Marks on underside of plate: Blue-glaze interlaced Ls enclosing R for 1770 3 blue dots, painter’s mark for Jean-Baptiste Tandart (active 1754-1800)
Manufacturer
Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
b. 1737
Sèvres, France 1738-present
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