Saint-Cloud Porcelain Tobacco Jar with Silver Mounts
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Saint-Cloud porcelain and silver mounted tobacco jar, c. 1720-1730, of cylindrical form, decorated with flowering prunus branches, height 14 cm width 8.5 cm. Provenance: Private Collection, Qld, reference: Cf. For comparison Bertrand Rondot, Discovering the Secrets of soft paste porcelain at the Saint-Cloud Manufactory
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- Soft Paste Porcelain - Porcelain is an ancient ceramic material, first made in China, hence the common name "china", and the process was unknown in the West.
European potters attempted to replicate Chinese porcelain, without knowing the ingredients in its composition, and the earliest wares were produced with mixtures of clay and ground-up glass (frit), the idea being that the glass would give the porcelain translucency.
It was given the name "soft" because it did not remain rigid, but "slumped" when fired in the kiln at high temperatures.
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