Gallery of Meissen Animals
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Author_Samuel Wittwer
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Product details
- ISBN 9783777427959
- Weight: 2320g
- Publication Date: 19 Jun 2006
- Publisher: Hirmer Verlag
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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In 1731, the elector-king Augustus the Strong of Saxony commissioned the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen to create several hundred life-size porcelain birds and other animals to adourn the Japanese Palace in Dresden. By January 1736, 412 birds and 160 quadrupeds had been delivered His Majesty.
