Bavaria auf Sockel | 20 cm Eule Inside the vessel

Inside the vessel

a well executed animal sculpture captures the locomotion in its entirety

The simplicity of the structure of the timelessly modern shape is emphasized by minimal painting

Heute umfasst das Sortiment von Nymphenburg gut 700 Tierfiguren

at the transitions between them

Bavaria auf Sockel | 20 cm Eule Inside the vesselIn the same year as the inauguration of the world famous Bavaria statue on the Theresienhhe in Munich, her twenty centimetre tall porcelain sister emerged from the kiln of the master workshops in Nymphenburg. Ludwig Michael von Schwanthaler, one of the principal masters of classical sculpture in Southern Germany, was responsible for the elaboration of both designs. He consciously dressed the secular patron saint of Bavaria in Germanic fashion in a