id: 130646
accession number: 1953.363
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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
Renaissance Splendor: Catherine de’ Medici’s Valois Tapestries. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 18, 2018-January 21, 2019).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
* No legacy exhibitions.
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PROVENANCE
Lionel de Rothschild.
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Edmund de Rothschild, London. (Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., 1953).
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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.
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RELATED WORKS
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CITATIONS
Foote, Helen S. "Saint-Porchaire Pedestal Dish and Ewer." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 42, no. 2 (February 1955): 23-27.
Published as: Saint-Porchaire Ewer.
page number: Mentioned: pp. 23-7; reproduced: p. 25
url: www.jstor.org/stable/25142014
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/n126
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/n126
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/n139
Cleveland Museum of Art, and Jenifer Neils. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. 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. Une orfévrerie de terre: Bernard Palissy et la céramique de Saint-Porchaire. 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. Knockouts: A Pocket Guide. 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. 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: 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. 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: http://library.clevelandart.org/opac/?func=find-b&find_code=OCL&submit=Search&request=1062361479
Gruber, Alain. "Entrelacs." In L'Art décoratif en Europe. Bruno Pons and Alain Gruber, 21-112. Paris: Citadelles & Mazenod,, 1992.
page number: Reproduced: p. 100
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Darras, Gaelle. "Une aiguière de Saint-Porchaire," L'Objet d'Art, 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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