A Chinese famille rose “Madame de Pompadour” cup and saucer. Qianlong period

Brightly enamelled in the famille rose palette, with a peony medallion encircled by floral sprays and seed pods flanking cartouches alternately enclosing a fish or an eagle.

COUNTRY : China
PERIOD : Qianlong (1735-1795), ca. 1745
MATIERIAL : Porcelain
SIZE : 5.11 in. (13 cm – saucer)
REFERENCE : C585
STATUT : sold
Related works :

For a set of plates, see Sotheby’s Paris, Important mobilier, sculptures, objets d’art et tableaux XVIe-XIXe siècle, 19 april 2016, lot 116.

Several pieces from this service are held on in different French museums as the Musée Guimet, the Musée Grobet-Labadit in Marseille, the Musée de Saint-Omer, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Paris or the Musée des Arts décoratifs of Bordeaux.

Additonal informations :

Michel Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, London, 1962, cat. 190, p. 194.

David S. Howard, The Choice of the Private Trader, London, 1994, no. 271, p. 229.

David Howard, John Ayers, China for the West, vol. II, London and New York, 1978, p. 443.

Rose Kerr, Luisa E. Mengoni, Chinese Export Ceramics, London, V&A Publishing, 2011, p.54, pl.67.

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