Cup and Saucer (Tasse et soucoupe)
Chantilly Porcelain Factory (French)
1775–1795
- Medium
- hard-paste porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
- Genre
- Ceramic
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Tags
France, Chantilly, late 18th-early 19th century(?)
About
Early French porcelain factories produced ceramics called soft-paste porcelain. Without the addition of the ingredient kaolin, they could not produce the prized hard-paste porcelain of China and Japan. The Chantilly Porcelain Factory only produced hard-paste porcelain in the last decade of the 1700s. Applying the same techniques used on soft-paste to the new hard-paste formula was difficult, which may account for this object’s slightly grayish color and rough blue decoration.
