A famille rose covered bowl and cup from the Madame de Pompadour service. Around 1745
Decorated around the exterior with floral sprays and seed pods flanking cartouches enclosing a carp-like fish swimming above weeds. a) Of cylindrical shape with a domed cover and knob. b) With deep rounded sides the interior and the base decoated with a flower. (2)
a) Height 15.3 cm; b) diameter 8.8 cm
The service is known as the "A la Pompadour" service, because of a fish that appears in the vignettes. It was once supposed that it symbolizes Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of the French King Louis XV., as referring to her low-born name "Poisson" (which means fish). However, the reference to her civil origin suggests that the service was not commissioned by her and was not connected to her.
It does not appear in the posthumous inventory of the Marquise nor in the auction catalogue of her brother and heir, Marquis de Ménars.
清1745年 龐巴度式瓷蓋罐與杯（2）
來源：Bernheimer München（標籤）
德國慕尼黑 Bernheimer 收藏，2015年11月25日於倫敦蘇富比，，拍出，編號218
哥本哈根私人收藏
一类似的瓷罐可参考Michel Beurdeley, 《Porzellan aus China, Compagnie des Indes, München》 1962年，圖190，龐巴度瓷可参考：David Howard 及 John Ayers, 《China for the West》(銷往西方的中國瓷器)，卷二編，倫敦1978年, 頁443
Provenance
a) Paper label: Bernheimer München 1964 gegr.
Bernheimer, Munich, sold at Sotheby's, London (Bernheimer Day Sale), 25.11.2015, lot 218
Private collection, Copenhagen
Literature
Compare a discussion regarding the provenance of the service in David Howard and John Ayers, China for the West, vil. 2, p. 443 and compare a similar decoration in Michel Beurdeley, Porzellan aus China, Compagnie des Indes, Munich 1962, no. 190