Jar (One of a Pair) Jar

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory

ca. 1725–1750

soft paste porcelain

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

On plain foot, an inverted bell-shaped cup; the outside covered with relief-cut artichoke leaves, forming scalloped edge above inner rim. Cover with slight dome, covered with relief-cut artichoke leaves, and a row of standing leaves around edge. Four-leaf knob finial. Undecorated. Gift of Catharine Oglesby