Vase (c. 1695–1700): Art, History and Details

Vase (c. 1695–1700) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Saint Cloud Porcelain Factory (French).

The work and its context

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

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.

Object facts

• Title: Vase
• Date: c. 1695–1700
• Creator attribution: Saint Cloud Porcelain Factory (French)
• Culture: France, St. Cloud, late 17th-early 18th Century
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: Molded soft-paste porcelain with blue underglaze
• Dimensions: Overall: 20.7 cm (8 1/8 in.)
• Collection: Decorative Arts
• Department: Decorative Art and Design
• Accession number: 1947.63

A detail from the museum

This vase may have been part of a garniture, a decorative set of matching porcelain intended to be displayed together.

Collection credit

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Foote, Helen S. "French Soft-Paste Porcelain." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34 (December 1947).
• Foote, Helen S. "Soft-Paste Porcelain of France." The Art Quarterly XI (Autumn 1948).
• The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.

View the collection record

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