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Article: Fabled beasts: Augustus the strong's Meissen menagerie.(Augustus II, King of Poland)(Illustration)
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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The next curiosity is the CHINESE palace, so called from the taste of the building, and the intention of furnishing it with porcelain.... Here are a great number of porcelain figures of dogs, squirrels, monkeys, wolves, bears, leopards, Etc. some of them as big as the life; also elephants and rhinoceros's of the size of a large dog; a prodigious variety of birds, as cocks, hens, turkeys, peacocks, pheasants, hawks, eagles, besides parrots and other foreign birds.... The long gallery in the second story had already two marble chimney-pieces, each adorned with near 40 very large pieces of porcelain, of birds, beasts, and vases, ranged to the height of above 20 feet in a ...
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