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Details
- Date
- circa 1735-1740
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- hard-paste porcelain
- Dimensions
- 10.8 x 7.4 x 6.8 cm
- Credit
- On loan from Kenneth Reed
- Location
- South Building, ground level, Grand Courts
- Accession number
- L2012.54
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Meissen
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About
The model is probably one of the dog kennels on which Kändler is recorded working in February 1737. It was copied at the Du Paquier factory in Vienna, c1740. Three dog kennels are listed in the 1753 inventory of the remarkable collection of table centrepiece items accumulated by the Count von Brühl, prime minister and director of the Meissen factory under Augustus III.
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Grand Courts collection rehang, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Nov 2021–2023
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Richard Beresford, Eighteenth - Century European Porcelain in the Kenneth Reed collection, Sydney, 2012, 24 (colour illus.). cat.no. 18
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