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Group shot: 2009.2797.1, 2a-b, 5a, 5b, 10
Madame de Pompadour (née Poisson) tea service
Group shot: 2009.2797.1, 2a-b, 5a, 5b, 10

Madame de Pompadour (née Poisson) tea service

Cindy Sherman (American, born in 1954)
Ancienne Manufacture Royale de Limoges
Artes Magnus
1990
Object PlaceLimoges, France
Medium/TechniqueGlazed porcelain, silk-screen transfer and painted platinum decoration
Credit LineContemporary Curator's Fund, American Decorative Arts Curator's Fund, Prints Drawings and Photographs Curatorial Discretionary Fund, and by exchange from the John Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund
Accession number2009.2797.1-15
On View
On view
ClassificationsCeramics
ProvenanceCindy Sherman/Artes Magnus; 1990 - May 2009, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA; 2009, sold by Barbara Krakow Gallery to MFA. (Accession Date: June 17, 2009)
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