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Tea Service (Déjeuner)

Tea Service (Déjeuner)

c. 1730
(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.
  • 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. 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
  • The Porcelain Connection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-August 15, 1982).
    Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965).
  • {{cite web|title=Tea Service (Déjeuner)|url=false|author=Chantilly Porcelain Factory|year=c. 1730|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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