King Vulture

King Vulture

1734·Hard-paste porcelain and polychrome enamels·58 × 43 cm (22 13/16 × 16 15/16 in.)

Harry and Maribel G. Blum and Kate S. Buckingham endowment funds; purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society; Applied Arts of Europe Sales Proceeds, Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester and Major Acquisitions Centennial funds; Robert Allerton Trust; Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund; Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund; purchased with funds provided by Harry A. Root; Wirt D. Walker Endowment Fund; Gladys N. Anderson Fund; Pauline Seipp Armstrong, Edward E. Ayer in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson, and Kay and Frederick Krehbiel endowment funds; purchased with funds provided by Doris and Stanford Marks; Helen A. Regenstein Endowment Fund; Samuel A. Marx Fund; Laura T. Magnuson, Marian and Samuel Klasstorner, and Maurice D. Galleher endowment funds; Robert Allerton Purchase Fund; Bessie Bennett and Applied Arts of Europe General endowment funds; Edward Johnson, Elizabeth R. Vaughan, and Annette M. Chapin funds; Wentworth Greene Field Memorial Endowment Fund; Campaign for Chicago's Masterpiece Director's Fund; purchased with funds provided by Maureen and Edward Byron Smith Jr.; Samuel P. Avery Endowment Fund; Hugh Leander Adams and Mary Trumbull Adams Fund; purchased with funds provided by G-Bar Charitable Foundation; Betty Bell Spooner Fund; purchased with funds provided by Elizabeth Souder Louis; Irving and Jane Seaman, Charles U. Harris, and S. DeWitt Clough endowment funds; purchased with funds provided by the Woman's Board of the Alliance Française of Chicago; Grant J. Pick Purchase Fund; purchased with funds provided by Ghenete Zelleke

Catalogue

Year
1734
Dimensions
58 × 43 cm (22 13/16 × 16 15/16 in.)

Artist

Johann Joachim Kändler
Johann Joachim Kändler

Sculpture

Johann Joachim Kändler was a German sculptor who became the most important modeller of Meissen porcelain, and perhaps of all European porcelain. He worked at Meissen from 1731 until his death in 1775.

Fischbach, Germany

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Record

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Year
1734
Dimensions
58 × 43 cm (22 13/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
Watts ID
WW-1734-005761

Source

Source
aic
Status
verified

Artist

Johann Joachim Kändler

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Sculpture

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