Saltcellar

Saint-Cloud Porcelain Manufactory

about 1700–1722

Soft-paste porcelain with underglaze blue and glaze, Soft-paste porcelain

J. Paul Getty Museum

A white porcelain saltcellar with blue floral and scroll motifs is displayed against a neutral gray background. The saltcellar has a fluted base and a bowl-like upper section, both decorated with intricate blue patterns. A white porcelain saltcellar with blue floral and scroll motifs is displayed against a neutral gray background. The saltcellar has a fluted base and a bowl-like upper section, both decorated with intricate blue patterns. The circular saltcellar, of waisted form, has a fluted rim and base. It is painted in underglaze blue with a lambrequin pattern around the inner rim and base, a rosette in the center of the well, and a single line around both the outer rim and edge of the base. Boone, MaryLou. Terre et Feu: Four Centuries of French Ceramics from the Boone Collection, exh. cat. (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1998), p. 72,