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Pair of Bottle Coolers (Seaux à rafraîchir)

Pair of Bottle Coolers (Seaux à rafraîchir)

c. 1730
(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

Description

The form of these cachepots is entirely typical of Saint-Cloud porcelain of about 1725. Their decoration, based upon Chinese porcelains of the so-called "famille-verte" type, is most unusual. Polychromed enamels were not often employed on Saint-Cloud porcelains, and figural scenes are very rare.
  • 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).
  • {{cite web|title=Pair of Bottle Coolers (Seaux à rafraîchir)|url=false|author=Saint Cloud Porcelain Factory|year=c. 1730|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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