A St. Cloud silver-mounted water jug and cover circa 1730

in the white, applied with trailing branches of prunus blossom,

There is a short crack, small bruise and chip with associated glaze cracks (total length approximately 15mm), next to the pouring lip. On the other side of the lip there is a fine short crack only (approximately 10mm on the interior, 5mm on the exterior).
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For a similar example, together with its matching basin in the Musée de la Céramique in Rouen, see the Bard Graduate Center exhibition catalogue, The Saint-Cloud Manufactory, Ed. Bertrand Rondot, 1999, pp. 170-171, no. 87