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Cane Handle (Poignée de canne)
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With its ribbing and underglaze blue decoration in the form of draping blue garlands, this porcelain handle was likely among the first to have been produced at the Saint-Cloud Porcelain Factory. Though Saint-Cloud may have been the first to produce porcelain cane handles as fashionable accessories, their popularity meant that they were soon produced at a variety of other French factories during the first half of the 1700s.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineCane Handle (Poignée de canne), c.1700–1720. Saint Cloud Porcelain Factory (French). Soft-paste porcelain with underglaze blue decoration; overall: 5.4 cm (2 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Norweb Collection, 1964.510
