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St John of Nepomuk on a Cloud
Also titled Johannes Nepomuk op een wolk
Meissener Porzellan Manufaktur
1731
- Medium
- porcelain
- Classification
- figure
- Dimensions
- height 29.7 cm x width 24.8 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This figurine portrays the 14th-century Bohemian martyr John of Nepomuk. It dates from shortly after Nepomuk was canonized in 1729. Johann Gottlieb Kirchner made the model of this figure. Even though he only worked at the factory for a few years, his designs were defining. He made human figures and groups, as well as large animal figures for the Japanese Palace in Dresden.
