Golden Pheasant

Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur, c. 1731

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-1964-9
  • Dimensionsheight 75 cm x width 21.2 cm x depth 24.2 cm, width 17.1 cm x depth 16.7 cm

Identification

  • Title(s)

    Golden Pheasant

  • Object type

  • Object number

    BK-1964-9

  • Description

    Figuur van beschilderd porselein. De figuur stelt een goudfazant voor op een hoge boomstronk. De poten rusten op twee afgeknotte zijtakken en de lange staart wordt gesteund door een dikke zijtak waaraan twee bladeren. de figuur is niet gemerkt.

Creation

  • Creation

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

  • Dating

    c. 1731

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Material and technique

  • Dimensions

    • height 75 cm x width 21.2 cm x depth 24.2 cm
    • width 17.1 cm x depth 16.7 cm

This work is about

  • Subject

Acquisition and rights

Documentation

    • Noortje Krikhaar, Keramiek : Een porseleinen dierentuin, uit: Origine, 2016, 3, pagina pp. 50-55(zie: R:\Documentatie\Artikelen\Krikhaar_2016.pdf)
    • Jaarverslag Rijksmuseum (1964), p. 38, afb. p. 36.

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