Saucer
(1775)
Medium
porcelain (soft-paste)
Measurements
3.0 × 14.5 cm diameter
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Patricia Begg OAM Bequest, 2024
Gallery location
17th & 18th Century Decorative Arts & Paintings Gallery
Level 2, NGV International
About this work
In 1758 Sèvres introduced the pink ground colour fond rose. The colour became highly fashionable and was a particular favourite of Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV’s mistress. In the 1760s the English termed the colour ‘Rose Pompadour’ but this was more a crimson or claret colour than the Sèvres pink ground colour. Regardless, the colour has forever after become known as ‘Pompadour Pink’.
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