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Vase

Vase

  • Place of origin:

    Meissen, Germany (made)

  • Date:

    ca. 1715 - 1720 (made)

  • Artist/Maker:

    Irminger, Johann Jacob (modeller)
    Meissen porcelain factory (manufacturer)

  • Materials and Techniques:

    Böttger's experimental white hard-paste porcelain with applied reliefs

  • Museum number:

    C.833&A-1920

  • Gallery location:

    World Ceramics, room 145, case 23, shelf 2

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The design of this expermental early Meissen jar and cover is by J.J.Irminger, goldsmith to the Dresden court of Augustus the Strong, King of Saxony. In about 1710 he was commanded by the king to provide designs for the porcelain factory being developed by the arcanist Böttger in the royal castle of the Albrechtsburg in Meissen. For this reason many of the vessel shapes of Böttger's red stoneware and early white porcelain derive from contemporary Baroque European metalwork.

Physical description

Hard-paste vase or beaker and cover, applied with a band of acanthus leaves in relief.
[vase cover] Cover of ogee profile, applied with a vase-shaped knop.
[vase body] Vase or tall jar of tapering shape, set on a pedestal foot, applied with a satyr's mask in the centre.

Place of Origin

Meissen, Germany (made)

Date

ca. 1715 - 1720 (made)

Artist/maker

Irminger, Johann Jacob (modeller)
Meissen porcelain factory (manufacturer)

Materials and Techniques

Böttger's experimental white hard-paste porcelain with applied reliefs

Dimensions

Height: 22.8 cm

Descriptive line

Vase or beaker and cover of white hard-paste porcelain (Böttger porcelain), modelled by Johann Jacob Irminger, made by the Meissen factory, Germany, ca. 1715 - 1720.

Production Note

Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio.

Materials

Hard paste porcelain

Techniques

Applied work

Subjects depicted

Acanthus; Satyrs

Categories

Porcelain; Ceramics

Collection code

CER

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