Saint-Cloud porcelain
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Saint-Cloud porcelain was a brand of soft-paste porcelain produced in the French town of Saint-Cloud in the late 17th and early-to-mid 18th centuries. In 1702, Philippe II, Duke of Orléans gave letters-patent to produce porcelain to the family of Pierre Chicaneau, who had already been in the business since 1693.[1][2] This factory became a pioneer within porcelain manufacture in France, which had long struggled to reproduce the manufacturing techniques of China and Japan. Around 1722 the business passed through marriage to Henri Trou. Production continued until 1766, when competition from the Chantilly and Vincennes porcelain manufactories put Saint-Cloud out of business.[1]
The porcelain produced in Saint-Cloud was yellowish or creamy off-white, and influenced by late Ming Chinese porcelain. Also the motifs were originally of Chinese design. It was said about the Saint-Cloud porcelain, in the original patent, that it was as "almost as perfect as the Chinese".[1]
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- Solon, M.L. (October 1906). "The Saint-Cloud Porcelain Part I". The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 10 (43): 24–5, 27–8.
- Solon, M.L. (November 1906). "The Saint-Cloud Porcelain Part II". The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 10 (44): 89–93, 95–6.
- Honey, W.B. (1952). European Ceramic Art. Faber and Faber.
