Blue Parrot

Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, c. 1730 - c. 1733

The porcelain factory at Meissen, near Dresden, was founded in 1709. It was the first European factory to produce ‘true’ or hard-paste porcelain, like that known in China and Japan. The manufactory was owned by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. All the birds and animals in this display case were made for him. They were intended for his so-called Japanese Palace, the walls of which he wished to fill with porcelain.

  • Artwork typefigure
  • Object numberBK-17493
  • Dimensionsheight 33.7 cm x width 15.6 cm x depth 22.6 cm, width 15 cm x depth 15 cm

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Blue Parrot

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-17493

  • Description

    Figuur van beschilderd porselein. De figuur stelt een papegaai voor die op een boomstronk met bladeren zit. De papegaai heeft schubachtige veren in blauw met witte randen, de vleugels en de staart in grijs en blauw met witte randen. De onderkant van de staart is bruinrood. De figuur is gemerkt.

  • Inscriptions / marks

    factory mark: ‘AR’

Creation

  • Creation

    • porcelain company: Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, Meissen
    • porseleinmodelleur: attributed to Johann Joachim Kändler, Meissen
    • porseleinmodelleur: Johann Gottlieb Kirchner, Meissen [rejected attribution]

  • Dating

    c. 1730 - c. 1733

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Material and technique

  • Dimensions

    • height 33.7 cm x width 15.6 cm x depth 22.6 cm
    • width 15 cm x depth 15 cm

This work is about

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

  • Copyright

    Public domain

  • Provenance

    Inv.; purchased from Violine Cotton by the dealer Wittekind, ca. 1934;{Note RMA.} …; collection Dr Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam and Paris, 1936;{Von Falke 1936, p. 282, no. Po.98.} purchased from his estate, en bloc, by the Dienststelle Mühlmann, The Hague, for Adolf Hitler's Führermuseum, Linz, 1940;{Korthals Altes 1974, pp. 21-22.} war recuperation, SNK, 1945;{HNA, SNK Archive, 2.08.42, inv. no. 548.} on loan, with 1,702 other objects, from the DRVK to the museum, 1960

  • Remarks

    Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

  • Noortje Krikhaar, Keramiek : Een porseleinen dierentuin, uit: Origine, 2016, 3, pagina pp. 50-55(zie: R:\Documentatie\Artikelen\Krikhaar_2016.pdf)

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