About the Artwork
Crane
1735
After a model by Johann Joachim Kändler (Artist) German, 1706-1775 Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) German, founded 1710
Hard-paste porcelain
Overall: 32 3/4 × 19 1/2 × 7 inches (83.2 × 49.5 × 17.8 cm)
Ceramics
European Sculpture and Dec Arts
Gift of Robert H. Tannahill
66.17
Public Domain
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Provenance
Rt. Hon. Lord Hastings (Melton Constable, Norfolk, England);June 6, 1950, (Sotheby & Co., London, England) lot 142;
1950, purchased by Grossmith.
1966, (Rosenberg & Stiebel, New York, New York, USA);
Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA);
1966-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Wittwer, S. The Gallery of Meissen Animals. Augustus the Strong's Menagerie for the Japanese Palace in Dresden. Munich, 2004, p. 229, pp. 334-335.
Pietsch, U. Die figürliche Meißner Porzellanplastik von Gottlieb Kirchner und Johann Joachim Kaendler. Bestandskatalog der Porzellansammlung Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. Munich, 2006, pp. 187-188. [cited under entry cat. no. 288.]
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Credit Line for Reproduction
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory; after a model by Johann Joachim Kändler, Crane, 1735, hard-paste porcelain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Robert H. Tannahill, 66.17.
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