Title
Bowl
Creator
Made at the Saint-Cloud Porcelain Factory, Saint-Cloud, France
Date
1695-1715
Label
#146
Bowl
Made at the Saint-Cloud Porcelain Factory, Saint-Cloud, France, 1695-1715
Made of Soft-Paste Porcelain
Museum Purchase with Funds Provided by the Herndon Foundation, the Family of Elisabeth S. Gottwald, and John Goadby Hamilton ’32
2020.22.1
This bowl was made at the first commercially successful porcelain manufactory in Europe.
European potters had tried to reproduce Chinese porcelain since the mid-1500s. While a few had successfully imitated the material, none were able to do it in commercially viable quantities. This changed in the 1690s, when potters in Saint-Cloud succeeded. The English scientist Martin Lister wrote that he “could not distinguish betwixt the pots made there, and the finest China Ware I ever saw.”
During the period this bowl was made, the factory was run by Barbe Coudray (died 1717). She and her two husbands, Pierre Chicaneau and Henri Trou, not only successful learned how to make porcelain, but also successfully and profitably ran a factory that remained in production until 1766.
This piece is on display in the European Ceramics Gallery.
Bowl
Made at the Saint-Cloud Porcelain Factory, Saint-Cloud, France, 1695-1715
Made of Soft-Paste Porcelain
Museum Purchase with Funds Provided by the Herndon Foundation, the Family of Elisabeth S. Gottwald, and John Goadby Hamilton ’32
2020.22.1
This bowl was made at the first commercially successful porcelain manufactory in Europe.
European potters had tried to reproduce Chinese porcelain since the mid-1500s. While a few had successfully imitated the material, none were able to do it in commercially viable quantities. This changed in the 1690s, when potters in Saint-Cloud succeeded. The English scientist Martin Lister wrote that he “could not distinguish betwixt the pots made there, and the finest China Ware I ever saw.”
During the period this bowl was made, the factory was run by Barbe Coudray (died 1717). She and her two husbands, Pierre Chicaneau and Henri Trou, not only successful learned how to make porcelain, but also successfully and profitably ran a factory that remained in production until 1766.
This piece is on display in the European Ceramics Gallery.
Credit Line
Museum Purchase with Funds Provided by the Herndon Foundation, the Family of Elisabeth S. Gottwald, and John Goadby Hamilton ’32
Citation
Made at the Saint-Cloud Porcelain Factory, Saint-Cloud, France, “Bowl,” Museums at Washington and Lee University: Online Exhibits, accessed May 17, 2024, https://exhibits-museums.omeka.wlu.edu/items/show/270.