Wallendorf
(1764– )
- Title
- Saturn
- Year
- circa 1770
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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24.5 x 10.5 x 12.2 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.202
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
The gods of Olympus: Saturn devours his own children; Jupiter (L2012.203) wears a crown and holds a sceptre and thunderbolt; Juno (L2012.204) is armed with a helmet and shield; an effeminate Apollo (L2012.205) holds a symbol of the sun; Diana (L2012.206) has a moon and arrow in her hands and a crescent moon in her hair; the messenger god Mercury (L2012.207) has his caduceus and is about to deliver a letter. The unknown Wallendorf modeller was probably hoping to emulate a rather more sophisticated set of gods modelled by Wenzel Neu for the nearby Kloster Weilsdorf factory c1765.
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 116, 117 (colour illus.). cat.no. 154
