Tallenna
Gallery of Meissen Animals
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.
- Alaotsikko
- Augustus the Strong's Menagerie for the Japanese Palace in Dresden
- Kirjailija
- Samuel Wittwer
- ISBN
- 9783777427959
- Kieli
- englanti
- Paino
- 2320 grammaa
- Julkaisupäivä
- 19.6.2006
- Kustantaja
- Hirmer Verlag
- Sivumäärä
- 360
