id:			130646
accession number:	1953.363
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.363
updated:		2025-05-06 12:06:29.304000

Ewer, c. 1540–67. Saint-Porchaire (French). Lead-glazed, white-paste earthenware with inlaid slip decoration; overall: 35.6 x 13.7 cm (14 x 5 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1953.363

title:				Ewer
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creation date:			c. 1540–67
creation date earliest:		1540
creation date latest:		1567
current location:		114 Late Northern Renaissance
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	France, 16th century
technique:	lead-glazed, white-paste earthenware with inlaid slip decoration
department:	Decorative Art and Design
collection:	Decorative Arts
type:		Ceramic
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CREATORS

* Saint-Porchaire (French)  - artist
A French factory certainly active before 1542 and the probable source of a highly individual type of lead-glazed earthenware. These pieces are decorative objects of finely grained off-white paste with intricate inlaid patterns of strapwork made by impressing the clay with metal punches and filling the cavities with clays of contrasting colors, red, yellow and brown; they are covered with a transparent lead glaze.
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measurements: Overall: 35.6 x 13.7 cm (14 x 5 3/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries
	opening date:   2018-11-18T05:00:00
	<i>Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 18, 2018-January 21, 2019).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'No legacy exhibitions.', 'opening_date': None}

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PROVENANCE

	Lionel de Rothschild.
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	Edmund de Rothschild, London. (Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., 1953).
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Foote, Helen S. "Saint-Porchaire Pedestal Dish and Ewer." <em>The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 42, no. 2 (February 1955): 23-27. <br>Published as: <em>Saint-Porchaire Ewer.</em>
	page number: 	Mentioned: pp. 23-7; reproduced: p. 25
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25142014

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 102
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n126

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 102
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n126

	The Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 119
	url:		https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n139

	Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. T<em>he World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> Cleveland: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: p. 50, fig. 52
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	Crepin-Leblond, Thierry. <em> Une orfévrerie de terre: Bernard Palissy et la céramique de Saint-Porchaire. </em>Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1997.
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced: p. 19, fig. 1
	url:		http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=37784570

	May, Sally Ruth, Jane Takac, and Barbara J. Bradley.<em> Knockouts: A Pocket Guide.</em> Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2001.
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced: pp.34-5, no. 30; listed p. 117
	url:		http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=50820863

	Bidwell, Frederick E., and Leslie Cade. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New York, NY: Scala Arts Publishers, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned& reproduced: p. 131
	url:		http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=857403600

	Cleland, Elizabeth A. H. and Marjorie E. Wieseman. <em>Renaissance Splendor: Catherine De' Medici's Valois Tapestries. </em>Cleveland, OH; New Haven, CT: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2018.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 27, fig. 21
	url:		http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=1062361479

	Gruber, Alain. "Entrelacs." In <em> L'Art décoratif en Europe</em>. Bruno Pons and Alain Gruber, 21-112. Paris: Citadelles &amp; Mazenod,, 1992.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 100
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	Darras, Gaelle. "Une aiguière de Saint-Porchaire,"<em> L'Objet d'Art,</em> no. 426 (July-August 2007).
	page number: 	Mentioned & reproduced: p. 22, fig. 1
	url:		http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=item-global-exp&doc_number=000044920&item_sequence=000980&sub_library=CMA

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