Toilet jar
18th century
Medium
Soft-paste porcelain
Dimensions
1 3/4 × 1 7/8 in. (4.4 × 4.8 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain
Culture
French, possibly Saint-Cloud
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, 1942
Accession Number
42.117.1a, 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...