A Chinese famille rose exprot porcelain 'Pompadour' teacaddy, Qing dynasty, 1740s.
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Decorated with famille rose and iron red fish within cartouches and flowers. Height 8 cm.
Minor firing flaws. Cover missing.
Literature
Literature: Howard & Ayers, China for the West, p. 443, Beurderley, Porcelain for the East India Companies, cat. 190.
According to tradition, the vignette with the fish symbolize Madame de Pompadour (1721-64), whose birth name was Poisson, which her opponents, the so-called 'Poissardes', used to highlight her low-born background.
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