Box

Meissen Manufactory

ca. 1728–30 · Hard-paste porcelain · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

The fan-shaped boxes of Japanese lacquer in the collection of Augustus the Strong (1670–1733), elector of Saxony and king of Poland, were copied at the Meissen porcelain manufactory and displayed in the Throne Room at the elector’s Japanese Palace in Dresden.

Artist

Meissen Manufactory

Date

ca. 1728–30

Medium

Hard-paste porcelain

Culture

German, Meissen

Department

European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

Credit line

The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973