Postmaster "Baron" Schmiedel

1739

After a model by Johann Joachim Kändler , Artist Meissen Porcelain Manufactory , Manufacturer

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Decorative Arts, Level 3, South Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Postmaster "Baron" Schmiedel

Artwork Date 1739

Makers After a model by Johann Joachim Kändler (Artist) German, 1706-1775 Meissen Porcelain Manufactory (Manufacturer) German, founded 1710

Medium Hard-paste porcelain

Dimensions Overall: 18 × 14 1/2 × 10 inches (45.7 × 36.8 × 25.4 cm)

Classification Ceramics

Department European Sculpture and Dec Arts

Credit Gift of Anne and Henry Ford II

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 59.296

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Marks Monogram AR [underglaze blue] N4Z0 (painted on bottom)

Provenance

by 1873, Sir William Richard Drake [1817–1890] (Weybridge and London, United Kingdom).
until 1959, Siegfried [1893–1961] and Violet "Lola" Ingeborg Else Kramarsky [1896–1991] (Amsterdam and New York, New York, USA);
1959, (Rosenberg & Stiebel) (New York, New York, USA);
1959, sold to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA) with funds from Anne and Henry Ford II (Grosse Pointe, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

A Short Description of the English and Continental Porcelain Exhibited June 1873. Exh. cat., Burlington Fine Arts Club. London, 1873, pp. 9, 17.

Catalogus van de tentoonstelling van oude kunst: door de vereeniging van handelaren in oude kunst in Nederland in het Rijksmuseum te Amsterdam. Exh. cat., Rijksmuseum. Amsterdam, 1929, p. 129, no. 662 (ill.).

Avery, C. Louise. "Masterpieces of European Porcelain." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 7, 8 (April 1949): p. 234.

Art Treasures Exhibition. Exh. cat., Parke-Bernet. New York, 1955, cat. 259 (ill.).

Honey, W. B. Dresden China. London, p. 84.

Meissner Porzellan des Achtzehnten Jahrhunderts. p. 33 (pl. 76).

Bulletin of the DIA, 40, 1 (1960-61): p. 8.

Scott, C. and Ryland Scott, Jr. Antique Porcelain Digest. England, 1961, pp. 35, 191, no. 256 (pl. 67).

Detroit Institute of Arts. The Institute Collects. 1965, p. 16.

Treasures from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1966, p. 162

DIA Handbook. 1971, p. 127.

100 MASTERWORKS FROM THE DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS. New York, 1985, p. 146-147 (ill.).

Rückert, R. "Der Hofnarr Joseph Fröhlich, Porträts und Lebenslauf eines Dresdener Spassmachers." Kunst & Antiquitäten 5 (1980): pp. 42-55; no. 6. [1980, p. 56-70; no. 1, 1981, pp. 57-73]

Czernis-Ryl, E. "The Golden Years of Meissen Porcelain and Saxon Jesters: the Schmiedel bust in Australia." Keramik-Freunde der Schweiz 104 (October 1989): pp. 5, 9-10 (fig. 3).

Pietsch, U. Die figürliche Meißner Porzellanplastik von Gottlieb Kirchner und Johann Joachim Kaendler. Bestandskatalog der Porzellansammlung Staatliche Kunstsammlungen. Munich, 2006, pp. 10-11, cat. 2.

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Credit Line for Reproduction

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory; after a model by Johann Joachim Kändler, Postmaster "Baron" Schmiedel, 1739, hard-paste porcelain. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Anne and Henry Ford II, 59.296.