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Cup and Saucer (Tasse et soucoupe)

c. 1775–95
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(French)
France, Chantilly, late 18th-early 19th century(?)
hard-paste porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
The Norweb Collection 1964.505
Location: not on view
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Early 18th-century porcelain attempted to emulate the blue and white design of Chinese ceramics, but the use of this design on a late 18th-century cup is unusual.

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Early French porcelain factories produced ceramics called soft-paste porcelain. Without the addition of the ingredient kaolin, they could not produce the prized hard-paste porcelain of China and Japan. The Chantilly Porcelain Factory only produced hard-paste porcelain in the last decade of the 1700s. Applying the same techniques used on soft-paste to the new hard-paste formula was difficult, which may account for this object’s slightly grayish color and rough blue decoration.
Cup and Saucer (Tasse et soucoupe)

Cup and Saucer (Tasse et soucoupe)

c. 1775–95

Chantilly Porcelain Factory

(French)
France, Chantilly, late 18th-early 19th century(?)

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