id: 130646 accession number: 1953.363 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.363 updated: 2025-08-07 21:41:59.312000 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 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'No legacy exhibitions.', 'opening_date': None} --- PROVENANCE Lionel de Rothschild. date: footnotes: citations: Edmund de Rothschild, London. (Rosenberg & Stiebel, Inc., 1953). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- 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 url: 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 url: 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 --- 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