The gallery of Meissen animals
Subtitle: Augustus the Strong's menagerie for the Japanese Palace in Dresden
By: Samuel Wittwer ; translated by John Nicholson ; photographs by Hans Bach, Jürgen Karpinski, and Peter Mookhoek.
Contributors: Wittwer, Samuel.
Publisher: Hirmer
Published: 2006
Place of publication: München
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
ISBN-13: 9783777427959
Subjects: Augustus -- II, -- King of Poland, -- 1670-1733 -- Art collections.; Meissen porcelain.; Porcelain animals -- Germany -- Dresden.; Porcelain -- Private collections -- Germany -- Dresden.; Animals in art -- Catalogs.
Genres: Catalogs.
Work titles: Galerie der Meissener Tiere.
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Basel, 2000, under title: Tiere für das Schloss des Königs : die Menagerie aus Meissener Porzelan für das Japanische Palais in Dresden.

Includes bibliographical references and index.