Man and woman with sleigh
Medium
Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions
Overall: 6 3/16 × 2 15/16 × 9 1/8 in. (15.7 × 7.5 × 23.2 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain
Culture
German, possibly Ansbach
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of R. Thornton Wilson, in memory of Florence Ellsworth Wilson, 1950
Accession Number
50.211.253
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Ansbach Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory · 1758–1860
**Ansbach Pottery and Porcelain Manufactory** was a prominent German ceramics producer established in 1758 in Ansbach (then part of the Margraviate of Brandenburg-Ansbach) by Margrave Charles Alexander (also known as Christian Frédéric Charles-Alexandre). As a state-supported enterprise under the Margrave’s patronage, the factory quickly became known for its high-quality hard-paste porcelain, refl...