Bavaria auf Sockel | 20 cm Eule Most of them were designed

Most of them were designed by the Thuringian sculptor August Göhring

the elegant shape merges with the decor that harmoniously frames the opening in the porcelain

it is one of the most successful examples of Art Nouveau in Munich

wurden darüber hinaus mit plastischen Akanthusblättern verziert – ein typisches Motiv in Kunst und Architektur der Klassik

Inside the vessel

Bavaria auf Sockel | 20 cm Eule Most of them were designedIn 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