Saint-Cloud porcelain

Saint-Cloud porcelain

Saint-Cloud porcelain was a brand of soft-paste porcelain produced in the French town of Saint-Cloud in the late 17th and early-to-mid 18th centuries. In 1702, Philippe II, Duke of Orléansgave letters-patent to produce porcelain to the family of Pierre Chicaneau, who had already been in the business since 1693.cite web | url = http://www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1224 | title = Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory | publisher = | author = J. Paul Getty Museum | date = | accessdate = 2008-01-13] [Honey, p. 533.] This factory became a pioneer within porcelain manufacture in France, which had long struggled to reproduce the manufacturing techniques of China and Japan. Saint-Cloud had developed frit ("a mixture of a flux, sand and chalk") which bore a resemblance to Asian porcelain. [cite web | url = http://www.artnet.com/magazine_pre2000/features/karlins/karlins8-10-99.asp | title = The Porcelain Secret | publisher = ArtNet magazine | author = Karlins, N.F. | date = 1999-08-11 | accessdate = 2008-09-22] Around 1722 the business passed through marriage to Henri Trou. Production continued until 1766, when competition from the Chantilly and Vincennes porcelain manufactories put Saint-Cloud out of business.

The porcelain produced in Saint-Cloud was yellowish or creamy off-white, and influenced by late Ming Chinese porcelain. Also the motifs were originally of Chinese design. It was said about the Saint-Cloud porcelain, in the original patent, that it was as "almost as perfect as the Chinese".

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*cite journal | first = M.L. | last = Solon | year = 1906 | month = October | title = The Saint-Cloud Porcelain Part I | journal = The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs | volume = 10 | issue = 43 | pages = 24–5, 27–8 | url = http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0951-0788%28190610%2910%3A43%3C24%3ATSPPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-%23 | accessdate = 2008-01-13
*cite journal | first = M.L. | last = Solon | year = 1906 | month = November | title = The Saint-Cloud Porcelain Part II | journal = The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs | volume = 10 | issue = 44 | pages = 89–93, 95–6 | url = http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0951-0788%28190611%2910%3A44%3C89%3ATSPPI%3E2.0.CO%3B2-D | accessdate = 2008-01-13
*cite book | first = W.B. | last = Honey | title = European Ceramic Art | publisher = Faber and Faber | location = | year = 1952


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