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Plate with tiger and bamboo

Manufactory Meissen Manufactory German
ca. 1730
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 201
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.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Plate with tiger and bamboo
  • Manufactory: Meissen Manufactory (German, 1710–present)
  • Date: ca. 1730
  • Culture: German, Meissen
  • Medium: Hard-paste porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze
  • Dimensions: Height: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm); Diameter: 14 7/8 in. (37.8 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
  • Credit Line: The George B. McClellan Collection, Gift of Mrs. George B. McClellan, 1941
  • Object Number: 42.205.125
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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