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Manufactory Meissen Manufactory German
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.
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Title: Box
Manufactory:
Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present)
Date: ca. 1728–30
Culture: German, Meissen
Medium: Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions: Overall: 3/4 × 4 1/16 × 2 9/16 in. (1.9 × 10.3 × 6.5 cm)
Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
Credit Line: The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection, Bequest of Emma A. Sheafer, 1973
Object Number: 1974.356.493a, b
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