Camel on Parade

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Camel on Parade

Artist Johann Joachim Kändler (German, 1706-1775)

Manufacturer Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (German, 1710-present)

Place of OriginMeissen, Germany

Dateabout 1745

DimensionsH: 9 in.

MediumPorcelain decorated with enamel colors and gilding

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott

Object number

1956.61

On View

Toledo Museum of Art Glass Pavilion (2444 Monroe Street), Glass Pavilion Gallery, 4

Label TextThe 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.Exhibition HistoryBaltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD. 1959.