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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.
- Undertittel
- Augustus the Strong's Menagerie for the Japanese Palace in Dresden
- Forfatter
- Samuel Wittwer
- ISBN
- 9783777427959
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Vekt
- 2320 gram
- Utgivelsesdato
- 19.6.2006
- Forlag
- Hirmer Verlag
- Antall sider
- 360
