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Saint Cloud soft porcelain vase, with blue designs under glaze, 1695–1700. Saint-Cloud porcelain was a type of soft-paste porcelain produced in the French town of Saint-Cloud from the late 17th to the mid 18th century.
Saint-Cloud porcelain, soft-paste porcelain made in the town of Saint-Cloud, Fr., from the last quarter of the 17th century until 1766. Pierre Chicaneau began the manufacture, which passed by marriage to the family of Henri Trou ( c. 1722 onward).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The first major porcelain factory in France, Saint-Cloud began production of soft-paste porcelain in the early 1690s. Under the protection of Philippe, duc d'Orléans, the factory obtained an official patent to make porcelain in 1702.
La porcelaine de Saint-Cloud. L'invention de la porcelaine tendre de Saint-Cloud se place dans la grande histoire du commerce international des porcelaines de Chine. A l'époque de Louis XIV, la mystérieuse matière des céramiques orientales fascinait les Occidentaux.
Products were bought by the wealthy (e.g. Madame de Pompadour) and included a wide range of tablewares as well as figures and ornaments, initially painted in blue, later often left in the white and with some enamelled in various colours. For a history of the Saint-Cloud porcelain manufactory see Dawson 1994 pp 3-7.
Soft-paste porcelain was first produced in France in the 1690s at a faience (earthenware) factory in Saint Cloud, a small town to the west of Paris. The factory began by copying porcelains imported from China and Japan, but it soon developed its own distinctive style, which was entirely French in character.
In the 1680s, experiments led to the first commercially viable manufactory of soft-paste porcelain in Europe at Saint-Cloud, outside Paris.
