Meissen
(Germany 1710– )
- Title
- Greyhound
- Year
- circa 1742
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
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16.1 x 25.3 x 8.5 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.58
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
Recorded in Kändler’s work records for 1740–44. The English greyhound was a popular hunting dog throughout Europe. This model was originally made for a ‘Herr von Bilow’, possibly the politican and diplomat Friedrich Gotthard von Bülow (1688–1768).
- Bibliography (1)
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Richard Beresford (England; Australia) (Author), Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 26 (colour illus.). cat.no. 23
