Plate with tiger and bamboo
Meissen Manufactory
ca. 1730 · Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze · European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
The inventory mark on the underside of this plate indicates that it was owned by Augustus II (1670–1733), elector of Saxony and king of Poland, one of Europe’s most avid collectors of East Asian porcelain in the eighteenth century.
- Artist
- Meissen Manufactory
- Date
- ca. 1730
- Medium
- Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze
- Culture
- German, Meissen
- Department
- European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
- Credit line
- The George B. McClellan Collection, Gift of Mrs. George B. McClellan, 1941
