Tartaglia or mezzetin

Details

• Title

  Tartaglia or mezzetin

• Artist/maker

  Johann Joachim Kändler (1706 - 1775) (modeller)

  Peter Reinicke (1715 - 1768) (modeller)

  Meissen Factory (established 1708) (manufacturer)

• Associated place

  Europe › Germany › Saxony (place of creation)

• Date

  c. 1744

• Material and technique

  hard paste porcelain, moulded and enamelled

• Object type

  sculpture › figure

• Dimensions

  13.5 cm (height)

• No. of items

  1

• Credit line

  Presented by L.R. Abel Smith, 1963.

• Museum location

  Second floor | Gallery 52 | 18th-century Art

• Museum department

  Western Art

• Accession no.

  WA1963.148.11

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