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Dish (part of a service)

model introduced 1738
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 533
The design of swans swimming amid reeds is based on an etching by Wenceslaus Hollar after Francis Barlow (ca. 1626–1702).

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Dish (part of a service)
  • Manufactory: Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present)
  • Artist: After a print by Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
  • Artist: After a composition by Francis Barlow (British, Lincolnshire ca. 1626–1704 London)
  • Artist: After a print by Johann Leonhard Buggels
  • Date: model introduced 1738
  • Culture: German, Meissen
  • Medium: Hard-paste porcelain
  • Dimensions: H. 2-1/4 in. (5.7 cm.); Diam. 13-1/4 in. (33.7 cm.)
  • Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
  • Credit Line: Gift of Rosenberg and Stiebel Inc., 1948
  • Object Number: 48.165
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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