Jar
1710-1720 (made)
| Artist/Maker | |
| Place of origin |
The factory at Saint-Cloud was France's first commercially viable producer of porcelain. Initially it made only pottery, but in the early 1690s the factory perfected its recipe for soft-paste porcelain. The enterprise was supported by the king's brother, the Duc d'Orléans, who had a château nearby and visited regularly.Its earliest productions are characterised by a creamy-white body with delicate underglaze blue decoration, derived from cobalt and reminiscent of imported Chinese porcelain.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue |
| Brief description | Jar, soft-paste porcelain painted in underglaze blue, made by Saint-Cloud porcelain factory, France, 1710-20 |
| Production | Acquired as English (Lowestoft); reattributed to Saint-Cloud. Examined by FPS 1994 and considered possibly from a Paris factory c. 1715. Published by Genevive Le Duc as Saint-Cloud c. 1700 (Porcelaine tendre de Chantilly, 1996, p. 304). |
| Subject depicted | |
| Summary | The factory at Saint-Cloud was France's first commercially viable producer of porcelain. Initially it made only pottery, but in the early 1690s the factory perfected its recipe for soft-paste porcelain. The enterprise was supported by the king's brother, the Duc d'Orléans, who had a château nearby and visited regularly.Its earliest productions are characterised by a creamy-white body with delicate underglaze blue decoration, derived from cobalt and reminiscent of imported Chinese porcelain. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.86-1910 |
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| Record created | June 7, 2004 |
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