Painted with peony, daisy, and lotus sprays and seed pods flanking cartouches enclosing either a fish or an eagle crest surmounted by a stylized crown.
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Traditional attribution for this service, with its many elaborately shaped pieces, has been Madame de Pompadour (1721-64), based on the fish vignettes (relating to her maiden name of Poisson) and the eagle vignettes (representing her husband, King Louis XV).
