Vase
ca. 1715 - 1720 (made)
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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.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 2 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | Böttger's experimental white hard-paste porcelain with applied reliefs |
| Brief description | 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 |
| Physical description | Hard-paste vase or beaker and cover, applied with a band of acanthus leaves in relief. |
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| Production | Attribution from the manuscript catalogue dates from about 1970 and was compiled by William Hutton of the Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio. |
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| Summary | 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. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | C.833&A-1920 |
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| Record created | April 18, 2000 |
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