Lot 159
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A FAMILLE ROSE 'MADAME DE POMPADOUR' JARDINIERE of baluster shape, the sides with animal mask handles and loose silver loops, finely enamelled with lotus pods and flowering and fruiting branches, flanking a foliate cartouche of a black eagle below a crown, on either side a cartouche of a swimming fish below a narrow border of green and yellow linked beads (one handle restored, two body star cracks), circa 1745

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A FAMILLE ROSE 'MADAME DE POMPADOUR' JARDINIERE of baluster shape, the sides with animal mask handles and loose silver loops, finely enamelled with lotus pods and flowering and fruiting branches, flanking a foliate cartouche of a black eagle below a crown, on either side a cartouche of a swimming fish below a narrow border of green and yellow linked beads (one handle restored, two body star cracks), circa 1745
25cm. wide

Lot Essay

Cf. Howard and Ayers, China for the West, Vol II, P. 443, no. 449, where the author has interesting theories about the origin of this decoration. The service is traditionally said to have been made for Madame de Pompadour (born, Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson), the mistress of king of France Louis XV, the fish vignettes and the crowned eagle being a reference to her and Louis XV.

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