CIRCA 1725, THE MOUNTS 18TH CENTURY

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A ST. CLOUD SILVER-MOUNTED LIME-GREEN-GROUND MUSTARD-POT AND COVER
CIRCA 1725, THE MOUNTS 18TH CENTURY
Of tapering cylindrical form with a scroll handle and a conical peg finial, painted in emerald-green, yellow, brown and iron-red with three flowering branches below ribbed sections, the borders with demi- flowerheads issuing leafy tendrils, the hinged mount with a shell thumbpiece (glaze scratches to cover, minor flaking around mounts)
3½ in. (9 cm.) high

Literature

Geneviève Le Duc, Porcelaine tendre de Chantilly au XVIIIe siècle (Paris, 1996) p. 310.

Special notice

VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 15% on the buyer's premium

Lot Essay

For a closely related tobacco jar in the Museo Nazionale della Ceramica Duca di Martina, Naples, see Bertrand Rondot, ed., Discovering the Secrets of Soft-Paste Porcelain at the Saint-Cloud Manufactory ca. 1690-1766, The Bard Graduate Centre for Studies in Decorative Arts, New York, Exhibition Catalogue (1999), pl. 119. See also Linda H. Roth and Clare Le Corbeiller, French 18th-Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, the J. Pierpont Morgan Collection, Hartford, Catalogue (2000), pp. 26-29, cat. no. 8 for a silver-gilt-mounted ewer and basin in a similar palette. The authors discuss St. Cloud green-ground wares, 18th century records of similar wares in French inventories and the possible attribution of the decoration to a Dutch hand.

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