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.
Accession Number
1964.510
Medium
soft-paste porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
Dimensions
Overall: 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.)
Classification
Ceramic
Credit Line
The Norweb Collection