Detail View: The AMICA Library: Figure of a Lion
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AMICA ID:
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MMA_.1988.294.1
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AMICA Library Year:
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2000
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Object Type:
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Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
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Creator Name:
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Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
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Creator Role:
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Factory
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Manufacured by Meissen
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Creator Name:
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Kirchner, Johann Gottlieb
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Creator Role:
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After a model by
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Creator Dates/Places:
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ca. 1706-1737; active at Meissen 1727-28 and 1731-33
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Creator Name-CRT:
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After a model by Johann Gottlob Kirchner
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Title:
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Figure of a Lion
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Title Type:
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Object name
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View:
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Detail
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Creation Date:
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18th century (ca. 1732-35)
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Creation Start Date:
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1732
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Creation End Date:
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1735
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Materials and Techniques:
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Hard-paste porcelain
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Classification Term:
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Ceramics-Porcelain
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Dimensions:
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H. 21 3/16 in. (53.8 cm), L. 32 7/8 in. (83.5 cm)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Owner Location:
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New York, New York, USA
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ID Number:
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1988.294.1
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Credit Line:
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Wrightsman Fund, 1988
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Rights:
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Context:
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In 1727 the elector of Saxony, Augustus the Strong, began renovating a building in Dresden that came to be known as the Japanese Palace. It was to be filled with Augustus's growing collections of porcelain, lacquer, and soapstone, arranged by category, much as they would be in a modern museum. Among the planned displays were several hundred figures of birds and animals that were to be made at Meissen in a large size that had not yet been attempted, stretching the capabilities of porcelain to its limit. This calmly imposing lion was modeled by Kirchner as part of the series; the broad handling of the body and the deep undercutting of the mane display his training as a sculptor of stone. The elector's plan was never realized; he died in 1733 and neither the installation of the Japanese Palace nor the series of birds and animals was completed. |
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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MMA_.es1988.294.1.AV1.tif
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