Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory
French, 1756–present
Vincent Taillandier, (French, active 1753–1790) or Mme. Geneviève Taillandier (née Le Roy), (French, active 1774–1798)
Plate from the service de la Reíne
1784
This plate may have been part of a dinner service commissioned by the French Queen Marie Antoinette. Before she received the set, however, her husband, Louis XVI, gave it to King Gustave III of Sweden. The queen immediately ordered a second service, decorated with the same delicate gilding and exquisitely painted flowers and pearls. Determining which set this plate came from is complicated by the fact that the same craftspeople at the manufactory worked on both sets.
| Medium | soft-paste porcelain |
| Dimensions | 1 x 9 3/8 x 9 3/8 in. (2.5 x 23.8 x 23.8 cm) |
| Object Number | 1955.1325 |
| Acquisition | Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955 |
| Status | On View |
Image Caption
Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory, Plate from the service de la Reíne, 1784, soft-paste porcelain. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1325
Select Bibliography
Wees, Beth Carver. "Continental and English Porcelain in the Clark Collection." The Magazine Antiques 62, no. 4 (October 1997): 516–21.
