Plate
1750–70
Medium
Hard-paste porcelain
Dimensions
Diameter: 9 1/8 in. (23.2 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain-Export
Culture
Chinese, for Continental European market
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1919
Accession Number
19.156
Tags
About the Artist
Joseph Wagner|Jacopo Amigoni · 1706–1780
Joseph Wagner (1706–1780) was a highly accomplished German engraver and draughtsman who spent the majority of his career in Venice, where he became one of the most important figures in eighteenth-century Venetian printmaking. Born in Thalendorf near Lake Constance in 1706, Wagner initially trained as a painter under the Venetian-born artist Jacopo Amigoni before being persuaded to dedicate himself...