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A blue and white 'Pompadour' dish
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A blue and white 'Pompadour' dish

QIANLONG

Details
A blue and white 'Pompadour' dish
Qianlong
Painted in the style of French faience with four alternate cartouches of an eagle surmounted by a coronet and a fish within vignettes of feathery scrolls encircling a central floral roundel
37.5 cm. diam.
Special notice
Christie's charge a premium to the buyer on the final bid price of each lot sold at the following rates: 23.8% of the final bid price of each lot sold up to and including €150,000 and 14.28% of any amount in excess of €150,000. Buyers' premium is calculated on the basis of each lot individually.

Lot Essay

It has been suggested 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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