(Get free) A Royal Menagerie: Meissen Porcelain Animals (Getty Trust Publications: J. Paul Getty Museum)
·•●- Samuel Wittwer ·•●-
| #799036 in Books | 2001-08-09 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 10.25 x.20 x8.00l,.57 | File Name: 0892366443 | 48 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| mindboggling images of porcelain animals|By x|This is a small but impressive volume of clear photos of examples from the Meissen collection. The gestures and expressions of the animals is exceptional. If you paint, draw, or sculpt animals you will love this book.|6 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| For students and collectors of 18th|About the Author||Samuel Wittwer is curator of the ceramics collections at the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation and of the archives of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory, Berlin.|
"Heroic" is perhaps the only word to describe the Meissen porcelain animals made for the Elector of Saxony, Frederick-Augustus. They were commissioned in 1728 and modeled and executed by 1735. The great size of the figures presented many technical difficulties in creation and firing. Their mere completion in so many cases was itself a tour de force, making it arguably the most significant commission for porcelain executed in Europe. Presented here are the large...
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