Figure group

Description

Porcelain group decorated in colours and gilt with the Tailor of the Saxon Court mounted on a goat, with two kids in a carrier slung on his shoulder: German, Saxony, Meissen, based on a model by Johann Joachim Kändler, c. 1750

Museum reference

A.1953.467

Collection

Decorative and Applied Art

Object name

Figure group

Production information

Meissen factory
Meissen, Saxony, Germany, Western Europe
Kändler, Johann Joachim, 1706 - 1775, Modeller
Meissen, Dresden, Saxony, Germany, Western Europe

Date

c. 1750

Materials

Porcelain

Physical description

Porcelain; decorated in colours and gilt

Associations

von Bruhl, Heinrich, Count, 1700 - 1763
Haddington collection (NMS)

Exhibitions

• Window on the World (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland