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Plant Stand

c. 1776-1777
Martin Carlin (German (active Paris), c. 1730–1785) Plaques made by the Sèvres porcelain factory, Sèvres, France (1756–present) Plaques painted by Vincent Taillandier (French, 1736–1790)
The curved porcelain plaques that decorate this plant stand were likely sold by the Sèvres porcelain factory to the marchands-merciers Simon-Philippe Poirier and Dominique Daguerre, who then specially commissioned this piece from the cabinetmaker Martin Carlin. Marchands-merciers were trendsetting merchants who are credited with the creation of many novel forms of porcelain-mounted furniture in the eighteenth century.

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