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Caster (Saupoudreuse)

c. 1732–38

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manufacturer

Saint Cloud Porcelain Factory

(French)

France, Saint Cloud, 18th century

Soft-paste porcelain, silver mount

Overall: 21.9 cm (8 5/8 in.)

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1947.177

Location

216A French and German

Inscriptions

Inscription

[Discharge mark of Hubert Louvet, 1732-1738 (Dog's head in profile), on both sections of silver mount]

Saint Cloud Porcelain Factory

Established c. 1690s

Provenance

(Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., New York).

Citations

Foote, Helen S. "French Soft-Paste Porcelain." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 34, no. 10 (December 1947): 249-250. p. 249

Foote, Helen S. "Soft-Paste Porcelain of France." The Art Quarterly 11 (Autumn 1948). p. 338, 342.

The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 300 archive.org

Lahaussois, Christine. Porcelaines de Saint-Cloud. Paris: Union centrale des arts décoratifs, 1997. p. 69-72, 84-87

Rondot, Bertrand. Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at the Saint-Cloud Manufactory, Ca. 1690-1766. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. p. 168-170, 270-271.

Exhibition history

Chinoiserie: The Chinese Influence. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (October 5-December 2, 1979).

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