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Cup and Saucer (Tasse et soucoupe)
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Early French porcelain factories produced ceramics called soft-paste porcelain. Without the addition of the ingredient kaolin, they could not produce the prized hard-paste porcelain of China and Japan. The Chantilly Porcelain Factory only produced hard-paste porcelain in the last decade of the 1700s. Applying the same techniques used on soft-paste to the new hard-paste formula was difficult, which may account for this object’s slightly grayish color and rough blue decoration.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineCup and Saucer (Tasse et soucoupe), c. 1775–95. Chantilly Porcelain Factory (French). Hard-paste porcelain with underglaze blue decoration. The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1964.505
