
Cleveland Museum of Art
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
What the image shows
A blue and white porcelain vase with intricate floral and bird designs.
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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
Part of a LinkedCulture topic
18th Century Porcelain FigurinesThese 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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