
Sebastian Kuhn
Department Director
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Department Director

Head of Department, Director
Literature:
Ulrich Pietsch, Passion for Meissen (2010), no. 136
The model is mentioned in Kaendler's Taxa of overtime work between 1740-48: '1 Hahn von ziemlicher Größe nach der Natur, wie er auff dem Rasen stehend schreyet' [1 rooster rather large after Nature, standing on the grass crowing]. This model, together with the matching hen, was originally modelled for Princess Johanna Charlotta of Anhalt-Dessau, the Abbess of Herford (1682-1750). Both models are in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Untermyer Collection (see Y. Hackenbroch, Meissen and other Continental Porcelain (1956), fig. 17).