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Pair of Bottle Coolers (Seaux à rafraîchir)

c. 1730
manufacturer

Saint Cloud Porcelain Factory

(French)
France, Saint Cloud, 18th century
soft-paste porcelain with enamel and gilt decoration
Diameter: 11 x 11.5 cm (4 5/16 x 4 1/2 in.)
Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.226
Location: 216A French and German

Did You Know?

These bottle coolers would have been used to cool glasses or small bottles.

Description

The Saint-Cloud Porcelain Factory was known for its innovation in color. Shades of green and blue are used to paint the main decoration of these bottle coolers, a palette typical of the Chinese porcelain famille verte. The alternating red and gold outlines of the figures and objects is relatively rare and generally only seen on two shapes produced at Saint-Cloud, bottle coolers and cream pots.
  • formerly in the J. Pierpont Morgan collection; (Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York).
  • Morgan, J. Pierpont, and Xavier Roger Marie Chavagnac. Catalogue des porcelaines françaises de m. J. Pierpont Morgan. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1910. p. 4, pl. 1
    Foote, Helen S. "Early French and German Porcelain Formerly in the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31 (November 1944). p. 160-61, 166
    Savage, George. Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century French Porcelain. New York: Macmillan, 1961. p. 340, 342
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 134 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 134 archive.org
    Jedding, Hermann. Europäisches Porzellan. Vol. 3. München: Keysersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1971. p. 266
    Le Duc, Genevieve, and Regine de Plinval de Guillebon. "Saint-Cloud autour de 1700." L'Estampille 265 (January 1993): 74-82. p. 82
  • The Porcelain Connection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-August 15, 1982).
    Chinoiserie: The Chinese Influence. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (October 5-December 2, 1979).
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