Pomade Jar (Pot à Pommade or Pot à Fard) Jar

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory

ca. 1730

soft paste porcelain, vitreous enamel

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Cylindrical form featuring arabesque or lambrequin motifs wrapped around entire circumference of pot on both upper and lower edges, all in underglaze blue; similar motif wrapped around edge of lid; knob on top of lid features single fower motif; all on white ground. The John Jay Ide Collection