Vase ca. 1695-1710 attributed to Saint-Cloud factory The Saint-Cloud factory was the first to produce soft-paste porcelain in France on a commercial basis. Established to make faience, or tin- glazed earthenware, the factory experimented with formulas for soft- paste porcelain that was in production by the early 1690s.1 This vase appears to be one of the earliest works produced at Saint-Cloud, and it belongs to a small group of objects made in the years between 1695 and 1710, which, in the absence of any factory marks, can only be attributed to Saint-Cloud, a factory still in its first period of porcelain manufacturing.2 A number of these works now believed to have been made at Saint-Cloud were attributed previously to the Poterat factory of Rouen (see 50.211.186),3 but based on qualities of paste and glaze, as well as stylistic considerations, a Saint-Cloud origin is more persuasive. Nonetheless, the slightly pinkish aspect of the glaze of the present example distinguishes it fr