Snuffbox in the form of an armadillo
ca. 1740–50
Medium
Soft-paste porcelain with enamel decoration; silver mounts
Dimensions
1 7/8 × 2 5/16 × 1 9/16 in. (4.8 × 5.8 × 4 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain
Culture
French, Saint-Cloud
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Austin B. Chinn Gift, in honor of Daniëlle Kisluk-Grosheide, 2020
Accession Number
2020.138
Tags
About the Artist
Saint-Cloud factory · 1693–1766
The Saint-Cloud porcelain factory, situated on the Seine in the town of Saint-Cloud near Paris, revolutionized European ceramics as the first to manufacture soft-paste porcelain commercially, beginning in 1693. Originally established around 1664-1666 as a faience workshop, it shifted to porcelain under Pierre Chicaneau, a potter whose experiments yielded a frit-based paste with a warm yellowish or...