Camel on Parade
Artist: Johann Joachim Kändler (German, 1706-1775)
Manufacturer: Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (German, 1710-present)
Date: about 1745
Dimensions:
H: 9 in.
Medium: Porcelain decorated with enamel colors and gilding
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Purchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott
Object number: 1956.61
Label Text:The new Baroque chalk glass with its exceptional purity and brilliance soon was joined on aristocratic tables by another groundbreaking invention: European porcelain. The German chemist Johann Friedrich Böttger, working for Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony, discovered the formula for making true hard paste porcelain—previously known only to the Chinese—in about 1708. The elector and later king of Poland had a great passion for Chinese porcelain and financially supported his own porcelain factory at Meissen, which began production in 1710. This exotic camel would have been part of the elaborate decorations of a court banquet table.
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