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Cane Handle (Poignée de canne)

c.1700–1720
made by

Saint Cloud Porcelain Factory

(French)
Culture
France, Saint Cloud, early 18th Century
Medium
soft-paste porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
Measurements
Overall: 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Norweb Collection 1964.510
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Canes, or sticks, were popular fashion accessories for aristocratic men, women, and children in 18th-century France.

Description

With its ribbing and underglaze blue decoration in the form of draping blue garlands, this porcelain handle was likely among the first to have been produced at the Saint-Cloud Porcelain Factory. Though Saint-Cloud may have been the first to produce porcelain cane handles as fashionable accessories, their popularity meant that they were soon produced at a variety of other French factories during the first half of the 1700s.

Cane Handle (Poignée de canne)

c.1700–1720

Saint Cloud Porcelain Factory

(French)
France, Saint Cloud, early 18th Century

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