NartmadArt intelligence
SearchDiscoverCollectionWatchlistProfile
King Vulture by Johann Joachim Kändler
Art Institute of ChicagoPublic domain

King Vulture

Johann Joachim Kändler · 1734

Comparables

Related holdings by the same hand

Allegorical Figure Representing Africa

Allegorical Figure Representing Africa

Art Institute of Chicago

Allegorical Figure Representing America

Allegorical Figure Representing America

Art Institute of Chicago

Allegorical Figure Representing Europe

Allegorical Figure Representing Europe

Art Institute of Chicago

Conductor for the Monkey Band

Conductor for the Monkey Band

Art Institute of Chicago

Allegorical Figure Representing Asia

Allegorical Figure Representing Asia

Art Institute of Chicago

Centerpiece and Stand with Pair of Sugar Casters

Centerpiece and Stand with Pair of Sugar Casters

Art Institute of Chicago

Oil or Vinegar Cruet

Oil or Vinegar Cruet

Art Institute of Chicago

Pair of Recumbent Lions

Pair of Recumbent Lions

Art Institute of Chicago

Museum holdings, not sale records. Auction results are only shown when a licensed price source is connected.

Research assistant

Ask about this record

Catalogue

Recorded facts

Artist

Johann Joachim Kändler

Date

1734

Medium

Hard-paste porcelain and polychrome enamels

Dimensions

58 × 43 cm (22 13/16 × 16 15/16 in.)

Classification

ceramics

Department

Applied Arts of Europe

Culture / origin

Germany

Credit line

Harry and Maribel G. Blum and Kate S. Buckingham endowment funds; purchased with funds provided by the Antiquarian Society; Applied Arts of Europe Sales Proceeds, Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester and Major Acquisitions Centennial funds; Robert Allerton Trust; Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund; Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund; purchased with funds provided by Harry A. Root; Wirt D. Walker Endowment Fund; Gladys N. Anderson Fund; Pauline Seipp Armstrong, Edward E. Ayer in memory of Charles L. Hutchinson, and Kay and Frederick Krehbiel endowment funds; purchased with funds provided by Doris and Stanford Marks; Helen A. Regenstein Endowment Fund; Samuel A. Marx Fund; Laura T. Magnuson, Marian and Samuel Klasstorner, and Maurice D. Galleher endowment funds; Robert Allerton Purchase Fund; Bessie Bennett and Applied Arts of Europe General endowment funds; Edward Johnson, Elizabeth R. Vaughan, and Annette M. Chapin funds; Wentworth Greene Field Memorial Endowment Fund; Campaign for Chicago's Masterpiece Director's Fund; purchased with funds provided by Maureen and Edward Byron Smith Jr.; Samuel P. Avery Endowment Fund; Hugh Leander Adams and Mary Trumbull Adams Fund; purchased with funds provided by G-Bar Charitable Foundation; Betty Bell Spooner Fund; purchased with funds provided by Elizabeth Souder Louis; Irving and Jane Seaman, Charles U. Harris, and S. DeWitt Clough endowment funds; purchased with funds provided by the Woman's Board of the Alliance Française of Chicago; Grant J. Pick Purchase Fund; purchased with funds provided by Ghenete Zelleke

View original record at Art Institute of Chicago

Artist authority

Johann Joachim Kändler

German artist (1706–1775)

Lifespan
1706 – 1775
Wikidata
Q73593
VIAF
32791264
ULAN
500001959
Wikipedia

Actions

Track this work

Sign in to save this to your private collection or watchlist.

  • Search
  • Discover
  • Collection
  • Watchlist
  • Profile