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Gallery of Meissen Animals. Augustus the Strong's Menagerie for the Japanese Palace in Dresden
Product code: 931778
About book In 1731, the elector-king Augustus the Strong of Saxony commissioned the Royal Porcelain Manufactory in Meissen to create several hundred life-size porcelain birds and other animals to adourn the Japanese Palace in Dresden. By January 1736, 412 birds and 160 quadrupeds had been delivered His Majesty.
