Collection Online as of September 27, 2022
c.1740–45
Tin-glazed soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration
Overall: 18.3 x 30.5 x 12.1 cm (7 3/16 x 12 x 4 3/4 in.)
The Norweb Collection 1983.60
Location 216A French and German
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 R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio.
Citations
Musée du Louvre. La porcelaine française de 1673 à 1914 . Paris, 1929. p. 29, no. 328
“Recent Ceramic Acquisitions by Major Museums: Supplement.” The Burlington Magazine 127, no. 986 (May 1985). p. 344, fig. 50
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. 146
Exhibition history
Highlights of the Rococo: Norweb Ceramics and Related Arts . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 11, 1983-June 3, 1984).
The Year in Review for 1983 . The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 22-April 8, 1984).
