The gallery of Meissen animals : Augustus the Strong's menagerie for the Japanese palace in Dresden

Author(s)

• Wittwer, Samuel
• Nicholson, John
• Karpinski, Jürgen
• Mookhoek, Peter
• Bach, Hans

Bibliographic Information

The gallery of Meissen animals : Augustus the Strong's menagerie for the Japanese palace in Dresden

Samuel Wittwer ; translated by John Nicholson ; photographs by Hans Bach, Jürgen Karpinski, and Peter Mookhoek

Hirmer, 2006

Note

Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Basel, 2000, under title: Tiere für das Schloss des Königs : die Menagerie aus Meissener Porzelan für das Japanische Palais in Dresden

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Details

• NCID: BC18310017
• ISBN:
  • 9783777427959
• Country Code: gw
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: Munich
• Pages/Volumes: 375 p.
• Size: 29 cm
• Classification:
  • SG : 730
  • LCC : NK4380
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Augustus II, King of Poland, 1670-1733 -- Art collections
  • LCSH : Meissen porcelain
  • LCSH : Porcelain animals -- Germany -- Dresden
  • LCSH : Porcelain -- Private collections -- Germany -- Dresden