Decorative Arts & Design
Caster (Saupoudreuse)
Permanent ExhibitionCeramicsMetalwork
Details
- Author / creator
- Saint Cloud Porcelain Factory (French)
- Object type
- Ceramics
- Date or period
- c. 1732–38
- Dimensions summary
- Overall: 21.9 cm
- Maker or workshop
- Saint Cloud Porcelain Factory
- Period / style
- Baroque
- Place of origin
- France
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the Art Fund grant and Friends of the Ashcombe Museum, 1947
About this object
This cylindrical caster with a removable pierced cover may have held sugar. It likely derives its form from silver casters manufactured pre-1700. Its all-white, molded, prunus branch decorations are characteristic of blanc de chine, the term used in France to reference the highly prized porcelain produced in the southeastern Fujian province of Dehua, China, known for its pure color and high degree of translucence.
Materials and technique
Soft-paste porcelain, silver mount
Signature and marks
[Discharge mark of Hubert Louvet, 1732-1738 (Dog's head in profile), on both sections of silver mount]
