Collection
Meissen
(Germany 1710– )
- Title
- Dog on kennel
- Year
- circa 1735-1740
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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10.8 x 7.4 x 6.8 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.54
- Location
- 15th–19th c European art
- Further information
The model is probably one of the dog kennels on which Kändler is recorded working in February 1737. It was copied at the Du Paquier factory in Vienna, c1740. Three dog kennels are listed in the 1753 inventory of the remarkable collection of table centrepiece items accumulated by the Count von Brühl, prime minister and director of the Meissen factory under Augustus III.
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection 2012, Sydney, 2012, 24 (colour illus.). cat.no. 18
