Bavaria auf Sockel | 20 cm Eule Inside the vessel

Inside the vessel

The overflowing wealth of ideas and the beauty of that era seem to be captured in this porcelain service

a well executed animal sculpture captures the locomotion in its entirety

the elegant shape merges with the decor that harmoniously frames the opening in the porcelain

Most of them were designed by the Thuringian sculptor August Göhring

Bavaria auf Sockel | 20 cm Eule Inside the vesselIn the same year as the inauguration of the world famous Bavaria statue on the Theresienhhe in Munich, her twenty centimetre tall porcelain sister emerged from the kiln of the master workshops in Nymphenburg. Ludwig Michael von Schwanthaler, one of the principal masters of classical sculpture in Southern Germany, was responsible for the elaboration of both designs. He consciously dressed the secular patron saint of Bavaria in Germanic fashion in a