Monday, December 19, 2011

Sculpture of the Day: The Meissen “Chinese Man” Sweetmeat Stand, 1735

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The Victoria & Albert Museum


Made for the Meissen Porcelain Factory by modeler Johann Joachim Kändler in 1735, this large sweetmeat stand features a figure of a Chinese man in hard-paste porcelain mounted on gilt bronze. The figure—which is removable—is surrounded by ten dishes of porcelain mounted on gilt bronze. The dishes were meant to hold sweetmeats.




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