Cover for a Potpourri Vase

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cover for a Potpourri Vase

Saint Cloud Porcelain FactoryLinkedCulture matchlcp-f5b91483b17b

Date
mid 1700s
Medium
soft-paste porcelain
Culture
France, Saint Cloud, 18th century
Department
Decorative Art and Design
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
138451

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A circular white ceramic object adorned with floral patterns.

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This cover is part of a pair of covered vases that were created to contain potpourri, a mixture of flowers, herbs, and spices emitting ambient fragrance. This specific function offered a particularly fertile ground for the development of French porcelain, as manufactories experimented with forms, surface ornamentations, and placement of perforations. Prior to Saint-Cloud's development of soft-paste porcelain in the 1690s, rumors spread throughout Europe that the prized material was made by burying a variety of materials, including lobster shells, in the ground for 80 years.

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Credit line
The Norweb Collection

Part of a LinkedCulture topic

  • Representative object from the topic 18th Century Porcelain Figurines
    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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