Cleveland Museum of Art
Cane Handle (Poignée de canne)
Saint Cloud Porcelain FactoryLinkedCulture matchlcp-f5b91483b17b
- Date
- c.1700–1720
- Medium
- soft-paste porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
- Culture
- France, Saint Cloud, early 18th Century
- Department
- Decorative Art and Design
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 141286
What the image shows
A small blue and white porcelain object with floral patterns.
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From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
With its ribbing and underglaze blue decoration in the form of draping blue garlands, this porcelain handle was likely among the first to have been produced at the Saint-Cloud Porcelain Factory. Though Saint-Cloud may have been the first to produce porcelain cane handles as fashionable accessories, their popularity meant that they were soon produced at a variety of other French factories during the first half of the 1700s. Canes, or sticks, were popular fashion accessories for aristocratic men, women, and children in 18th-century France.
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- Credit line
- The Norweb Collection
- Provenance
- R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio.
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