Vase (one of a pair)

ca. 1740
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 533
The theme of hunters and the hunt was popular in German ceramics. This vase and its mate (64.101.143a, b) combine both two- and three-dimensional representation of the subject.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Vase (one of a pair)
  • Manufactory: Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present)
  • Modeler: Johann Joachim Kändler (German, Fischbach 1706–1775 Meissen)
  • Modeler: Johann Friedrich Eberlein (German, 1695–1749)
  • Decorator: Decoration attributed to J.G. Heintze
  • Date: ca. 1740
  • Culture: German, Meissen
  • Medium: Hard-paste porcelain; gilt-bronze mounts
  • Dimensions: H. 19-3/4 in. (50.2 cm.)
  • Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
  • Credit Line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964
  • Object Number: 64.101.144a, b
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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