Teapot
ca. 1720–30
Medium
Soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed): 5 5/16 × 7 5/8 × 4 1/2 in. (13.5 × 19.4 × 11.4 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain
Culture
French, Saint-Cloud
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Marilyn and Lawrence Friedland Gift, 2015
Accession Number
2015.503a, b
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...