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Tea Service (Déjeuner)

c. 1730
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

Did You Know?

The use of knobs in the form of trumpet-shaped blossoms is characteristic of porcelain produced at the Chantilly factory.

Description

This tea service, composed of a teapot, a sugar bowl, two cups, and a tray, is decorated with brightly colored polychrome floral motifs on a milky-white background typical of the Japanese Kakiemon style. The body of the teapot recalls Chinese or Japanese gourd or melon forms while the tray and cups pull inspiration from European silver models.
  • 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. "Early French and German Porcelain Formerly in the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 9 (November 1944): 160-162. Mentioned: p. 161; Reproduced: p. 164 www.jstor.org
    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=18 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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