Title
Aeneas rescuing Anchises and Ascanius, model
circa 1753-circa 1755
Artist
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Details
- Date
- 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
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- L2012.74
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Meissen
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About
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.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 30 (colour illus.). cat.no. 36
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