Seated Figure and Potpourri Vase
Chantilly Factory
c. 1740
Medium
Soft-paste porcelain, tin-glaze, and polychrome enamels
Dimensions
16.2 × 15.9 × 18.3 cm (6 3/8 × 6 1/4 × 7 3/16 in.)
Classification
vase
Department
Applied Arts of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
109326
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Chantilly Factory
The Chantilly Factory produced celebrated French soft-paste porcelain from around 1725 to 1800 in Chantilly, Oise, under the patronage of Louis Henri de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, an avid collector of East Asian ceramics who established the works near his château after purchasing riverside outbuildings in 1730. The factory’s technical foundations were laid by Ciquaire Cirou, a painter who had train...