Saint-Cloud Porcelain
A Pair of Soft-Paste St. Cloud Lidded Pots with silver mounts, 1744-50
H7 Dia.5.3cm
H.2 3/4 Dia.2 1/8in
H.2 3/4 Dia.2 1/8in
11438
GBP £ 3,200.00
Literature
The silver mounts have the décharge mark used in the years 1744-50.
Pots such as these were made for make-up powders and were provided with tight silver mounts so that insects could not invade and feed on the plant-based powder.
The style of low-relief 'prunus' decoration is based on similar decoration on white porcelain exported from China to Europe.