{"id":1212,"date":"2021-01-21T21:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-01-21T21:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2024-05-16T19:55:49","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T19:55:49","slug":"the-galatea-from-meissen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/2021\/01\/21\/the-galatea-from-meissen\/","title":{"rendered":"the Galatea from Meissen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Galatea2.0100_MeissenKaendler<\/p>\n

Johann Joachim Kaendler, designer, Galatea tureen, part of the Swan Service produced at the Meissen Porcelain pottery (Staatlich Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen), 1740.<\/p>\n

Kaendler\u2019s elaborate soup tureen depicts the mythological sea-nymph Galatea atop a fish and attended by other marine divinities and several swans. Attributes are lacking by which one might identify specifically Galatea, except the title of the piece and the similarity to Kaendler\u2019s sourcworks \u2014 (according to Helfricht they are Francis Barlow\u2019s drawing (1626-1704) and Francesco Albini\u2019s pa<\/p>\n

inting \u201cGalatea in a Shell Chariot\u201d (1578-1660). Images featuring the sea-nymph Galatea triumphans <\/em>were hardly uncommon in 16th<\/sup>– thru 18th<\/sup>-century art, e.g. Raphael\u2019s Triumph of Galatea<\/em> (1511), An. Carracci\u2019s \u201cPolyphemus Wooing Galatea\u201d (ca. 1596), Domenico Fetti\u2019s Galatea and Polyphemus<\/em> (1621) or \u00a0J-B van Loo\u2019s Triumph of Galatea<\/em> (1720) among many similars.<\/p>\n

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Under direction of Heinrich Graf von Br\u00fchl, the Meissen factory produced a highly influential porcelain tableware service, the Schwanenservice (1737-1742) consisting of more than 2,200 individual pieces. The individual pieces of the collection feature swan motifs generally, but include also diverse other mythological tropes. Br\u00fchl\u2019s leadership and the Swan Service established the Meissen factory as an important purveyor of luxury goods but, more broadly also, an artistic influence in 18th<\/sup>-century Europe and beyond.<\/p>\n

Such items as Meissenware and Wedgwood products are not generally indexed in the Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts<\/em>. (Nor is this item found in the print version.)<\/p>\n

The featured image is included in J. Helfricht (2012), A Small Lexicon of Meissen Porcelain [tm]<\/em> (Husum), 113.<\/p>\n

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Francis Barlow, British, Lincolnshire ca. 1626-1704, illustrated Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses<\/em>, Aesops\u2019 Fables<\/em> and many other print publications in the 17th<\/sup> Century. His works were used extensively by 18th<\/sup>-century artists such as the designers at the Meissen porcelain factory.<\/p>\n

Francesco Albini doesn\u2019t appear in Michael Bryan\u2019s Dictonary of Painter and Engravers <\/em>(or any other place I\u2019ve checked).<\/p>\n

Annibale Carracci\u2019s ceiling fresco in Palazzo Farnese (1596-1597) would seem to have all the elements for Galatea (wind-blown drape, two attendants upon a cruising dolphin) to serve at source or inspiration for Kaendler\u2019s work. (https:\/\/library.artstor.org\/#\/asset\/SCALA_ARCHIVES_1039778737<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Galatea2.0100_MeissenKaendler Johann Joachim Kaendler, designer, Galatea tureen, part of the Swan Service produced at the Meissen Porcelain pottery (Staatlich Porzellan-Manufaktur Meissen), 1740. Kaendler\u2019s elaborate soup tureen depicts the mythological sea-nymph Galatea atop a fish and attended by other marine divinities and several swans. Attributes are … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1213,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[148,117],"tags":[121,122],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-galatea","category-mythology","tag-galatea","tag-porcelain"],"modified_by":"Roger Macfarlane","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1215,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ogcmaonline.byu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}