Cane Handle (Poignée de canne)

Description

With its ribbing and underglaze blue decoration in the form of draping blue garlands, this porcelain handle was likely among the first to have been produced at the Saint-Cloud Porcelain Factory. Though Saint-Cloud may have been the first to produce porcelain cane handles as fashionable accessories, their popularity meant that they were soon produced at a variety of other French factories during the first half of the 1700s.

Provenance

R. Henry Norweb, Cleveland, Ohio.

Cane Handle (Poignée de canne)

Saint Cloud Porcelain Factory

c.1700–1720

Accession Number

1964.510

Medium

soft-paste porcelain with underglaze blue decoration

Dimensions

Overall: 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.)

Classification

Ceramic

Museum

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Credit Line

The Norweb Collection