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À L'ANCIEN RÈGIME IS INSPIRED BY THE ART OF ROCOCO
Palais Lobkowitz Baroque city palace in Vienna
Charlottenburg Palace, ‘the grey room’ : paintings on the wall by Antoine Watteau.
Pot-pourri gondole Sèvres porcelain factory (porcelain manufacturer) 1758 Royal Collection © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II This vase owes its name to its (generic) similarity of shape - with upward turning ends - to that of a Venetian gondola. As early as the 1750s the colour was being called in England ‘rose Pompadour’ in honour of Louis XV’s mistress. Later, as a tribute to another of Louis XV’s mistresses, it was called ‘rose Du Barry’, and more rarely ‘rose Trianon’, an allusion to the Petit Trianon built by Louis XV for Madame de Pompadour in the early 1760s.
“The Sea room” at Rydzyna palace, Poland 
Le salon ovale du prince, Hotel de Soubise, Paris 
Manufacture royale de Vincennes, Bouquet de fleurs dans une jardiniere, porcelaine tendre, vers 1752, MNC 
Schloss Seehof Eight-Light Chandelier Porcelian possibly by Vincennes  Date: ca. 1765-70  (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gallery 533 - Sculpture and Decorative Arts in Baroque and Rococo Central Europe)
detail of the wall paintings at Schloss Schönnbrunn - Bergl Zimmer In 4 garden rooms on the ground floor of Schönbrunn palace Bohemian Baroque painter Johann Wenzl Bergl (1718-1783) expressed Empress Maria Theresia’s fondness for exotic art, her longing for an idyllic world far away from the court´s etiquette and for Rousseau´s “back to nature” philosophy. In his “Indian landscapes” he mixed three-dimensionality with wild, untamed nature. His fantastic frescos bring India to Schönbrunn; the walls are decorated with palm trees and exotic plants, colorful parrots fly under tropic skies. These wall paintings, which were created around 1777, were rediscovered under a layer of paint in the year 1891. They are a document of the Habsburgs´ interest in exploring foreign cultures. Bergl modelled his paintings on exact drawings of the exotic fauna and flora discovered on scientific expeditions.
Castletown House, Celbridge, County Kildare, Ireland a Palladian country house built in 1722 for  the Conolly family; it was designed by Italian architect Alessandro Galilei . 
Sanssouci palace
Library, Early Gustavian style, eighteenth century Swedish manor, Stockholm. 
Bouquets of porcelain flowers, Sevres porcelain manufacture, mid 18th century. Among the many beautiful and singular things that Madame de Pompadour liked to acquire and collect wore finely crafted porcelains,  which lead to her lifelong connection with the legendary Sevres porcelain manufacture which she helped establish and perfect by having the  Vincennes factory moved to Sevres, closer to Versailles and even closer to her Bellevue country house estate bought for her by the king.  In its early days Vincennes factory gained popularity by making perfumed porcelain flowers, painted to look as close to the real thing as possible, they were relatively easy to make and became an instant best seller, and Madame de Pompadour, with her deep love for flowers adored these and as the legend goes filled her gardens with them, intermixing with real blossoms, and inviting the King to view her beautiful gardens fooling and impressing him with its artistic realism.    
Schönbrunn Palace, the Bergl rooms
Chandelier and detail from the official bedroom of the Queen, Versailles
Rose from a Wall Light Date: ca. 1750–60 Culture: Italian Medium: Bronze-gilt, painted iron, soft- and hard-paste porcelain