Cane Handle (Poignée de canne)

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With its ribbing and underglaze blue decoration in the form of draping blue garlands, this porcelain handle was likely among the first to have been produced at the Saint-Cloud Porcelain Factory. Though Saint-Cloud may have been the first to produce porcelain cane handles as fashionable accessories, their popularity meant that they were soon produced at a variety of other French factories during the first half of the 1700s. Canes, or sticks, were popular fashion accessories for aristocratic men, women, and children in 18th-century France.

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