id: 130646 accession number: 1953.363 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.363 updated: 2019-06-03 09:25:45.689000 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 title in original language: series: series in original language: 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 copyright: --- culture: France, 16th century technique: lead-glazed, white-paste earthenware with inlaid slip decoration department: Decorative Art and Design collection: Decorative Arts type: Ceramic find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- 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. --- measurements: Overall: 35.6 x 13.7 cm (14 x 5 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Lionel de Rothschild. Edmund de Rothschild, London. (Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., 1953). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: The green tree frog was one of the symbols of French King Henri II, indicating that this ewer may have either been made for the king or one of his courtiers. digital description: An example of one of the most extravagant wares of this kind, this ewer is decorated with applied masks and frogs as well as a variety of stamped and inlaid designs. The shape and patterns reflect the metalwork of the time—the final period of this artistic pottery. wall description: An example of one of the most extravagant wares of this kind, this ewer is decorated with applied masks and frogs as well as a variety of stamped and inlaid designs. The shape and patterns reflect the metalwork of the time—the final period of this artistic pottery. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 102 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966#page=126 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 102 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969#page=126 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 119 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978#page=139 Bidwell, Frederick E., and Leslie Cade. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with New York, NY: Scala Arts Publishers, 2014. page number: Reproduced & Discussed: Pg. 131 url: Cleland, Elizabeth A. H. and Marjorie E. Wieseman. Renaissance Splendor: Catherine De' Medici's Valois Tapestries. Cleveland, OH; New Haven, CT: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2018. page number: Reproduced: p. 27, fig. 21 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.363/1953.363_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.363/1953.363_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1953.363/1953.363_full.tif