The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of December 21, 2025
Cup and Saucer (Tasse et soucoupe)
c. 1775–95
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
Early 18th-century porcelain attempted to emulate the blue and white design of Chinese ceramics, but the use of this design on a late 18th-century cup is unusual.Description
Early French porcelain factories produced ceramics called soft-paste porcelain. Without the addition of the ingredient kaolin, they could not produce the prized hard-paste porcelain of China and Japan. The Chantilly Porcelain Factory only produced hard-paste porcelain in the last decade of the 1700s. Applying the same techniques used on soft-paste to the new hard-paste formula was difficult, which may account for this object’s slightly grayish color and rough blue decoration.- Dawson, Aileen. A Catalogue of French Porcelain in the British Museum. London: British Museum Press, 1994. p. 44-45
- Year in Review: 1965. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 27-November 14, 1965).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1964.505