TWO SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN GLASS-COOLERS WITH MASK HANDLES (SEAU À VERRE)
TWO SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN GLASS-COOLERS WITH MASK HANDLES (SEAU À VERRE)

CIRCA 1725-35, INCISED STC /T

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TWO SAINT-CLOUD PORCELAIN GLASS-COOLERS WITH MASK HANDLES (SEAU À VERRE)
CIRCA 1725-35, INCISED STC /T
With gadrooned rim above molded flowering branches flanked by laughing grotesque mask handles, the lower portion reeded, raised on a flaring foot
5 7/8in. (13cm.) wide, overall (2)

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Anne Igelbrink
Anne Igelbrink

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Based on contemporary metalwork, the popular form of the present cooler was made in porcelain in sizes for bottles, half-bottles and glasses. J. Cordey in his Inventaire des Biens de Madame de Pompadour rédigé après son décès published in 1939 lists around 60 Saint-Cloud seau à rafraîchir located at the time of her death in 1764 as in the palaces of Versailles, Compiègne and Fontainbleau.

See A. Dawson, French Porcelain, A Catalogue of the British Museum Collection, London, 1994, no. 12, pp. 14-15 and compare L. Roth and C. Le Corbeiller, French Eighteen Century Porcelain at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Cambridge England, 2000, p. 23, fig. 5 for examples in the collections of the British Museum and the Wadsworth Atheneum.