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Tea Service (Déjeuner)

c. 1730

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manufacturer

Chantilly Porcelain Factory

(French)

France, Chantilly, 18th century

Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.228

Location

not on view

Description

The pieces composing this individual tea set are entirely typical of Chantilly soft-paste porcelain in the Kakiemon style. Both the form and decoration of these pieces were inspired by Japanese prototypes. The use of knobs in the form of trumpet-shaped blossoms is characteristic of Chantilly wares.

Chantilly Porcelain Factory

Founded in c. 1730 under the patronage of Louis-Henri de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, an impassioned collector of Japanese Arita porcelain, and managed by Ciquaire Cirou until his death in 1751. Only soft-paste porcelain was made.

Provenance

formerly in the J. Pierpont Morgan collection; (Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York).

Citations

Morgan, J. Pierpont, and Xavier Roger Marie Chavagnac. Catalogue des porcelaines françaises de m. J. Pierpont Morgan. Paris: Imprimerie nationale, 1910. p. 11

Foote, Helen S. "Soft Paste Porcelain of France." The Art Quarterly 11 (Autumn 1948): 335-347. p. 339, 343, 347

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 303 archive.org

Ball, Victoria Kloss. Architecture and Interior Design. New York: Wiley, 1980. p. 82

Le Duc, Geneviève. Porcelaine tendre de Chantilly au XVIIIe siècle: héritages des manufactures de Rouen, Saint-Cloud et Paris et influences sur les autres manufactures de XVIIIe siècle. Paris: Hazan, 1996. p. 288, 291

Exhibition history

Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art (September 11-October 10, 1965).

The Porcelain Connection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-August 15, 1982).