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Children Playing, Painted Porcelain Chinese Urn

Artist: Ilena Finocchi Title: Bottles Year: circa 2009 Medium: Plaster-Cast Ceramic Molds, Lights, Wooden Display Light Box Size: 16 x 20 x 20 in. (40.6...

This ceramic sculpture is circa 1970 and offers an expressionistic view of a large flask. The geometric abstract pattern that separates the two tones lend...

Great king vulture on tree trunk Porcelain, Model by J.J. Kaendler 1734. This present porcelain sculpture was made after the model by Kaendler, in the 19th or 20th Century. There are no visible marks. Kaendler and Porcelain: Dresden in the 18th century owed its Europe-wide fame as a centre of courtly splendour to the elector Frederick Augustus I (1670-1733). 'August the Strong' had a distinct passion for collecting and was not only a patron and lover of the arts, but also an enthusiastic patron of science. His natural history cabinet was regarded as the most important collection of its kind in Europe and contained a large number of exotic animals. He financed expeditions, from which the researchers were to bring the 'most possible species of their animals alive or in skins and skeletons or even crushed' back to Dresden. Johann Joachim Kaendler had this extensive collection of partly living exhibits at his disposal when he was commissioned to design life-sized animal sculptures for the 'Japanese Palace...

Ruan Hoffmann uses ceramic earthenware as his preferred medium. Ruan Hoffmann chooses familiar objects such as plates as his canvases, however the resulting works are not presented a...