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拍品专文
This reclining lion supports a large armorial shield centred by an heraldic tower. Its quality of execution suggests an important patron and the presence of the tower immediately brings to mind Madame de Pompadour, whose emblems and coat-of-arms depict either one or three towers.
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour and Duchesse de Ménars (1721-1764) was the mistress of King Louis XV and played a key role in the life of the sovereign, remaining a confidante until her death. She was one of the greatest patrons of the reign, both in literature, by promoting the publication of the Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert, and in the arts, by financing the manufacture of Vincennes-Sèvres porcelain, or commissioning artists such as the painters van Loo, La Tour, Boucher and Nattier, to name a few.
Her coat-of-arms - blue with three silver towers - can be found complete, or sometimes simplified with a tower in the centre, on the covers of her books, consoles (see Christie's, Paris, 27 April 2021, lot 195), frames for her paintings (see the painting representing the Château de Saint-Ouen, Musée des Arts et Métiers, inv. 01407-0002) or on the carved bases of the two important terrestrial and celestial globes by Vaugondy from her Château de Crécy (Eure-et-Loir), now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Chartres. The present lion probably formed one half of a pair and could easily have adorned one of her many residences such as the aforementioned Château de Crécy or the Châteaux d'Étiolles, Pompadour, Choisy, Montretout, La Celle, Champs-sur-Marne, Saint-Ouen or Ménars to mention only those residences outside Paris.
This reclining lion supports a large armorial shield centred by an heraldic tower. Its quality of execution suggests an important patron and the presence of the tower immediately brings to mind Madame de Pompadour, whose emblems and coat-of-arms depict either one or three towers.
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour and Duchesse de Ménars (1721-1764) was the mistress of King Louis XV and played a key role in the life of the sovereign, remaining a confidante until her death. She was one of the greatest patrons of the reign, both in literature, by promoting the publication of the Encyclopédie by Diderot and d'Alembert, and in the arts, by financing the manufacture of Vincennes-Sèvres porcelain, or commissioning artists such as the painters van Loo, La Tour, Boucher and Nattier, to name a few.
Her coat-of-arms - blue with three silver towers - can be found complete, or sometimes simplified with a tower in the centre, on the covers of her books, consoles (see Christie's, Paris, 27 April 2021, lot 195), frames for her paintings (see the painting representing the Château de Saint-Ouen, Musée des Arts et Métiers, inv. 01407-0002) or on the carved bases of the two important terrestrial and celestial globes by Vaugondy from her Château de Crécy (Eure-et-Loir), now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Chartres. The present lion probably formed one half of a pair and could easily have adorned one of her many residences such as the aforementioned Château de Crécy or the Châteaux d'Étiolles, Pompadour, Choisy, Montretout, La Celle, Champs-sur-Marne, Saint-Ouen or Ménars to mention only those residences outside Paris.