Thursday, April 28, 2016

Meissen at the Victoria & Albert Museum III

Meissen porcelain factory
The Happy Parents
c. 1775
modeled by Michel Victor Acier
Victoria & Albert Museum

The large-scale Meissen operation in 18th-century Germany produced colorless white hard-paste porcelain figure-groups (as above) alongside an array of figures with colored glazes. Colors might be either delicate or strident, partly depending on the character of the subject.

Meissen porcelain factory
Spring
c. 1765-75
Victoria & Albert Museum

Meissen porcelain factory
Diana & Endymion
c. 1785
modeled by Christian Gotfried Jüchtzer
Victoria & Albert Museum

Meissen porcelain factory
Summer
c. 1741
modeled by Johann Joachim Kändler
Victoria & Albert Museum

Meissen porcelain factory
The Three Graces
c. 1785
modeled by Christian Gotfried Jüchtzer
Victoria & Albert Museum

Meissen porcelain factory
Summer
c. 1765-75
Victoria & Albert Museum

Meissen porcelain factory
Pylades and Orestes
c. 1790
modeled by Christian Gotfried Jüchtzer
Victoria & Albert Museum

Meissen porcelain factory
Child Gardener
c. 1765-75
Victoria & Albert Museum

Meissen porcelain factory
Ganymede with Eagle
c. 1790
modeled by Christian Gotfried Jüchtzer
Victoria & Albert Museum

Meissen porcelain factory
Child Musician
c. 1770-75
Victoria & Albert Museum

Meissen porcelain factory
Diadumenos of Polycleitus
c. 1790
modeled by Christian Gotfried Jüchtzer
Victoria & Albert Museum

Meissen porcelain factory
Harlequin
1738-40
modeled by Johann Joachim Kändler
Victoria & Albert Museum

Meissen porcelain factory
Harlequin (back view)
1738-40
modeled by Johann Joachim Kändler
Victoria & Albert Museum

Meissen porcelain factory
Neptune
c. 1752
modeled by Friedrich Elias Meyer
Victoria & Albert Museum