Blue Parrot
Also titled Blauwe papegaai
Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur
1731
- Medium
- porcelain
- Classification
- figure
- Dimensions
- 16.6 kg
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
About this work
This parrot perches momentarily on a tree stump. It clutches a twig with cherries. The parrot is the same size as a real one, but ten times heavier. It is made entirely of porcelain. Porcelain is very hard fired clay and extremely difficult to make. It was even called ‘white gold.’ The maker deliberately didn’t colour the parrot all over. This way you can see the porcelain clearly.
