Collection
Meissen
(Germany 1710– )
- Title
- Aeneas rescuing Anchises and Ascanius, model
- Year
- circa 1753-circa 1755
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
-
25.7 x 14.7 x 13.0 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Accession number
- L2012.74
- Location
- 18th c European porcelain
- Further information
As recounted in book 2 of Virgil’s Aeneid, Aeneas saves his father Anchises and his son Ascanius from the burning city of Troy. The model, probably by Kändler and Meyer, is based on a print by Bernard Picart of 1734.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection 2012, Sydney, 2012, 30 (colour illus.). cat.no. 36
