Cleveland Museum of Art
Cup and Saucer (Tasse et soucoupe)
Chantilly Porcelain FactoryLinkedCulture matchlcp-12da545d8d9b
- Date
- c. 1775–95
- Medium
- hard-paste porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
- Culture
- France, Chantilly
- Department
- Decorative Art and Design
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 141276
What the image shows
A blue and white porcelain cup and saucer with a mountain and horse design.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
Early French porcelain factories produced ceramics called soft-paste porcelain. Without the addition of the ingredient kaolin, they could not produce the prized hard-paste porcelain of China and Japan. The Chantilly Porcelain Factory only produced hard-paste porcelain in the last decade of the 1700s. Applying the same techniques used on soft-paste to the new hard-paste formula was difficult, which may account for this object’s slightly grayish color and rough blue decoration. Early 18th-century porcelain attempted to emulate the blue and white design of Chinese ceramics, but the use of this design on a late 18th-century cup is unusual.
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- Credit line
- The Norweb Collection
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