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A pair of famille rose 'pompadour' cups and saucers and four cups
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The pair of cups and saucers enamelled in the style of French faience with a cartouche enclosing a fish below a feathery scroll, surrounded by finger citrus and peony; and four coffee cups painted with Chinoiserie figures, three sitting at a table with vases, one weighing a crate on a scale, all below an underglaze blue trellis pattern border, some cracks and chips (8)

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Christie's charge a buyer's premium of 20% (VAT inclusive) for this lot.

Lot Essay

It has been supposed that the eagle surmounted by a coronet represents Louis XV of France and that the fish refers to Madame de Pompadour's real name Poisson. For further discussion and a similar pattern, see D. Howard and J. Ayers, China for the West, vol. II, p. 443, pl. 449.

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