Lot 176
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A FAMILLE ROSE 'MADAME DE POMPADOUR' OVAL DISH, finely enamelled with a central exotic-flower cluster, within a band of four alternating foliate cartouches of a black eagle below a crown and a swimming fish, flanked by lotuspods and flowering and fruiting branches (two rim chips and associated rim cracks), circa 1745

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A FAMILLE ROSE 'MADAME DE POMPADOUR' OVAL DISH, finely enamelled with a central exotic-flower cluster, within a band of four alternating foliate cartouches of a black eagle below a crown and a swimming fish, flanked by lotuspods and flowering and fruiting branches (two rim chips and associated rim cracks), circa 1745
46.5cm. wide

Lot Essay

cf. Howard and Ayers, China for the West, VolII, 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 Louis XV king of France, the fish vignettes and the crowned eagle being a reference to her and Louis XV.

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