The title of this magnificent new book—Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour and Sèvres Porcelain—on a familiar, indeed almost clichéd subject is intriguing and intentionally paradoxical.

The mystique and allure of Madame de Pompadour’s partially mythic legacy ... she is also remembered for supporting a royal porcelain factory that made beautiful dishes and other things at ...

The self-portrait image of the artist as Madame de Pompadour has been transferred onto porcelain through a complex process which requires up to 16 photo-silkscreens. Each piece is silkscreened and ...

Public Domain Madame de Pompadour is perhaps most associated ... The exhibition features engraved gems, a tapestry and porcelain vases, all commissioned by Pompadour and on view until the end ...

Madame de Pompadour was born Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson ... planned buildings and palaces and established a center for porcelain production at Sèvres.” You can’t ride to star status within ...

"After us, the deluge," Madame de Pompadour is reported to have said ... French furniture, French porcelain and French art, was "simply not to be a good citizen". The fact that she and the ...

Madame de Pompadour, the chief mistress of Louis XV, famously loved pink clothes, and she commissioned a bright pink porcelain service from Sèvres, which developed a new color for the set called ...

He had not one moment to himself, but sent various friends to call on Madame de Pompadour at her uncle’s house. During the great banquet at the Hôtel de Ville she and her family dined upstairs ...

It was 1745, and Jeanne Antoinette Poisson, the pretty young woman who would become Marquise de Pompadour, had been invited to a masked ball at Versailles. If this sounds like a chance meeting ...