  About the Artwork
  
  
  Title
  Postmaster &quot;Baron&quot; 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
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
