Bottle with arabesque designs (one of a pair)

Saint-Cloud factory

ca. 1695–1700 · Soft-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

The porcelain factory established in Saint-Cloud, a town outside of Paris, in the late seventeenth century was the first to produce soft-paste porcelain on a commercial scale in Europe. The blue and white decoration of the objects manufactured there during the early years of the factory was a deliberate reference to the imported Chinese porcelains so popular in Europe at this time.

Artist

Saint-Cloud factory

Date

ca. 1695–1700

Medium

Soft-paste porcelain

Culture

French, Saint-Cloud

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917