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Tureen with Cover and Under Plate, "Madame de Pompadour (nee Poisson) Pattern"

Decorative Arts and Design

MEDIUM Porcelain with painted and silk-screened decoration
DATES 1990
DIMENSIONS as installed: 12 1/2 × 21 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (31.8 × 54.6 × 34.3 cm) Under Plate: 2 1/2 x 22 1/8 x 17 1/8 in. (6.4 x 56.2 x 43.5 cm)  (show scale)
MARKINGS Underside, (a) tureen: printed in black: " Madame de Pompadour/Nee poisson (1721 1764)/ by/ Cindy Sherman/ for/ [company logo] ARTES MAGNUS/10B/25/ [signature] cindy sherman(?)/ silk screened and hand/painted by/ [company logo]Ancienne Manufacture/Royale/Fondee en 1737/ Limoges France." (b) Underside: " Madame de Pompadour/Nee poisson (1721 1764)/ by/ Cindy Sherman/ for/ [company logo] ARTES MAGNUS/10B/25/ [signature] cindy sherman(?)/ silk screened and hand/painted by/ [company logo]Ancienne Manufacture/Royale/Fondee en 1737/ Limoges France." (c) Underside: " Madame de Pompadour/Nee poisson (1721 1764)/ by/ Cindy Sherman/ for/ [company logo] ARTES MAGNUS/10B/25/ [signature] cindy sherman(?)/ silk screened and hand/painted by/ [company logo]Ancienne Manufacture/Royale/Fondee en 1737/ Limoges France."
ACCESSION NUMBER 2009.47a-c
CREDIT LINE Gift of the Estate of Mary Hayward Weir, by exchange
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
CAPTION Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954). Tureen with Cover and Under Plate, "Madame de Pompadour (nee Poisson) Pattern," 1990. Porcelain with painted and silk-screened decoration, as installed: 12 1/2 × 21 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (31.8 × 54.6 × 34.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Mary Hayward Weir, by exchange, 2009.47a-c. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2009.47a-c_overall_PS11.jpg)
EDITION Edition: 10/25
IMAGE overall, 2009.47a-c_overall_PS11.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2017
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Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954). <em>Tureen with Cover and Under Plate, "Madame de Pompadour (nee Poisson) Pattern,"</em> 1990. Porcelain with painted and silk-screened decoration, as installed: 12 1/2 × 21 1/2 × 13 1/2 in. (31.8 × 54.6 × 34.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Mary Hayward Weir, by exchange, 2009.47a-c. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2009.47a-c_overall_PS11.jpg)