Caster (Saupoudreuse)

c. 1732–38 Overall: 21.9 cm (8 5/8 in.) Source image
https://clevelandart.org/art/1947.177

This cylindrical caster with a removable pierced cover may have held sugar. It likely derives its form from silver casters manufactured pre-1700. Its all-white, molded, prunus branch decorations are characteristic of blanc de chine, the term used in France to reference the hig...

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1947.177
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