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Ewer
Saint-Porchaire (French)
c. 1540–67
- Medium
- lead-glazed, white-paste earthenware with inlaid slip decoration
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Overall: 35.6 x 13.7 cm (14 x 5 3/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
An example of one of the most extravagant wares of this kind, this ewer is decorated with applied masks and frogs as well as a variety of stamped and inlaid designs. The shape and patterns reflect the metalwork of the time—the final period of this artistic pottery.
