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Vase

Saint Cloud Porcelain FactoryLinkedCulture matchlcp-f5b91483b17b

Date: c. 1695–1700
Medium: Molded soft-paste porcelain with blue underglaze
Culture: France, St. Cloud, late 17th-early 18th Century
Department: Decorative Art and Design
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 125737

From the Cleveland Museum of Art record

This vase’s decoration demonstrates the converging influence of Chinese and Italian art on French porcelain manufacture. Early production at the Saint-Cloud factory was inspired by blue and white Chinese porcelain. Books of grotesque designs popular during the Italian Renaissance and published by Jacques Androuet Du Cerceau provided models for this vase’s ornament including its interlacing garlands, swans, and snakes. This vase may have been part of a garniture, a decorative set of matching porcelain intended to be displayed together.

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Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

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18th Century Porcelain Figurines
These objects are decorative ceramic figures and figure groups made from soft-paste or hard-paste porcelain during the 18th century, produced by major European porcelain factories including Meissen, Sèvres, Derby, Chelse
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