Tea Service (Déjeuner) (c. 1730): Art, History and Details

Tea Service (Déjeuner) (c. 1730) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Chantilly Porcelain Factory (French).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This tea service, composed of a teapot, a sugar bowl, two cups, and a tray, is decorated with brightly colored polychrome floral motifs on a milky-white background typical of the Japanese Kakiemon style. The body of the teapot recalls Chinese or Japanese gourd or melon forms while the tray and cups pull inspiration from European silver models.

Object facts

• Title: Tea Service (Déjeuner)
• Date: c. 1730
• Creator attribution: Chantilly Porcelain Factory (French)
• Culture: France, Chantilly
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1944.228

A detail from the museum

The use of knobs in the form of trumpet-shaped blossoms is characteristic of porcelain produced at the Chantilly factory.

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Morgan, J. Pierpont, and Xavier Roger Marie Chavagnac. Catalogue des porcelaines françaises de m. J. Pierpont Morgan. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1910.
• Foote, Helen. "Early French and German Porcelain Formerly in the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 9 (November 1944): 160-162.
• Foote, Helen S. "Soft Paste Porcelain of France." The Art Quarterly 11 (Autumn 1948): 335-347.

View the collection record

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