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Swan Service in the National Museum in Warsaw. The Swan Service (German: Schwanenservice, Polish: Serwis łabędzi) is a large service of baroque Meissen porcelain which was made for the First Minister of the Electorate of Saxony and favourite of king Augustus III of Poland, Heinrich von Brühl.
The sculpture featured a male and female mute swan, three infant swans, and a natural setting of rocks and grass. Formed from roughly 60,000 sculpted lines, it weighed roughly 250 lbs, and stood over 42 inches high on a 3-foot base. The softness and detail in the feathers of the swans make it "hard to believe [they] are made of porcelain". [1 ...
Meissen porcelain or Meissen china was the first European hard-paste porcelain. Early experiments were done in 1708 by Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus . After his death that October, Johann Friedrich Böttger continued von Tschirnhaus's work and brought this type of porcelain to the market, financed by Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and ...
File: Dish from the Swan Service, 1738, Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, modeled by Johann Joachim Kandler and Friedrich Eberlein - Art Institute of Chicago - DSC00006.JPG.
Ceramic Originals by Freeman-Leidy, crane figurine. Key milestones in the history of California pottery include: the arrival of Spanish settlers, the advent of statehood and subsequent population growth, the Arts and Crafts movement , Great Depression , World War II era and the post-WWII onslaught of low-priced imports leading to a steep ...
Johann Joachim Kaendler Goat, one of the large animal figures for the Japanese Palace in Dresden Commedia dell'arte figurines, c. 1736-1744. Johann Joachim Kändler (June 15, 1706 – May 18, 1775) was a German sculptor who became the most important modeller of the Meissen porcelain manufactury, and arguably of all European porcelain.