Gallery of Meissen Animals: Augustus the Strong's Menagerie for the Japanese Palace in Dresden - Samuel Wittwer - Books - Hirmer Verlag - 9783777427959 - June 19, 2006
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Gallery of Meissen Animals: Augustus the Strong's Menagerie for the Japanese Palace in Dresden

Samuel Wittwer

Gallery of Meissen Animals: Augustus the Strong's Menagerie for the Japanese Palace in Dresden

In 1731, the elector-king Augustus the Strong of Saxony commissioned the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen to create several hundred life-size porcelain birds and other animals to adourn the Japanese Palace in Dresden. By January 1736, 412 birds and 160 quadrupeds had been delivered His Majesty. This book deals with this subject.


360 pages, 220 illustrations, 185 in colour

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released June 19, 2006
ISBN13 9783777427959
Publishers Hirmer Verlag
Pages 360
Dimensions 252 × 294 × 35 mm   ·   2.33 kg

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