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Source Description
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.
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Document identity
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125737
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Vase
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object
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Source metadata
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125737
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object
title
Vase
description
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.
date
c. 1695–1700
citation
rights
CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79904650
creators
11810
genreSpecific
Ceramic
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Overall: 20.7 cm (8 1/8 in.)
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France, St. Cloud, late 17th-early 18th Century
accession
1947.63
Source extras
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Molded soft-paste porcelain with blue underglaze
tombstone
Vase, c. 1695–1700. Attributed to Saint Cloud Porcelain Factory (French). Molded soft-paste porcelain with blue underglaze; overall: 20.7 cm (8 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1947.63
collection
Decorative Arts
inscriptions
inscription
"55"
inscription
"KR paiz"
didYouKnow
This vase may have been part of a garniture, a decorative set of matching porcelain intended to be displayed together.
citations
citation
Foote, Helen S. "French Soft-Paste Porcelain." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 34 (December 1947).
page_number
p. 249
citation
Foote, Helen S. "Soft-Paste Porcelain of France." <em>The Art Quarterly</em> XI (Autumn 1948).
page_number
p. 338, 341; fig. 3
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 119
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 119
citation
Jedding, Hermann. <em>Europäisches Porzellan</em>, vol. 1. München: Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1971.
page_number
p. 264; no. 818
citation
The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
page_number
Reproduced: p. 175
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. T<em>he World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 58, fig. 60
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils.<em> The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
page_number
p. 58; no. 60
citation
Meister, Peter Wilhelm, and Horst Reber. <em>European Porcelain of the 18th Century</em>. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983.
page_number
p. 88; pl. 105
citation
Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: The Museum, 1991.
page_number
p. 100
citation
Le Corbeiller, Clare. "Reflections of Court Taste in Early Saint-Cloud Porcelain." <em>Versailles: French Court Style and Its Influence</em>, edited by Howard Collinson. Toronto: University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies, 1992.
page_number
p. 107; fig. 24, 25
citation
Rondot, Bertrand. <em>Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at the Saint-Cloud Manufactory, Ca. 1690-1766</em>. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.
page_number
p. 128 (repr.) - 129, no. 19
creditline
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
updatedAt
2026-05-29 06:30:16.397000
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125737
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Decorative Art and Design
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Decorative Arts
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Molded soft-paste porcelain with blue underglaze
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gender unknown
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