https://emuseum.gardinermuseum.com/internal/media/dispatcher/16582/fullPair of Covered Pomade Potsca.1735-1740Saint-Cloud Porcelain ManufactoryOverall: 3 × 3 3/4 in. (7.6 × 9.5 cm)Soft-paste porcelain with applied decorationGift from the Collection of Gregory WilliamsG17.2.6.1-20In the eighteenth-century, porcelain manufacturers produced a range of containers for cosmetics. Jars of this size would have been used as containers for pomade, a thick scented cream used as a face cleanser or cream, or applied to hair and wigs before the application of grey hair powder.18th Century European Porcelain2017 AcquisitionsFrench Porcelain[]European CeramicsFrench Porcelain1827617470Frenchcross, S. C. and T.