Modeled by Johann Joachim Kandler
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory
Germany, Meissen

King Vulture, 1734

Hard-paste porcelain, polychrome enamels
58 x 43 cm (22.8 x 16.9 in.)
Harry Root, Doris and Stanford Marks, Fred and Kay Krehbiel, Maureen and Edward Byron Smith, Jr., Elizabeth Souder Louis, Ira and Barbara Eichner Charitable Foundation, Lori Gray Faversham, Women's Board of the Alliance Francaise
Lacy Armour Fund, The Antiquarian Society, Kate S. Buckingham Fund, Charles H. and Mary F. Worcester Collection Fund, Frederick W. Renshaw Acquisition Fund, Robert Allerton Trust, The Mary and Leigh Block Endowment Fund, Northeast Auction Sales Proceeds Fund, Kay and Frederick Krehbiel Endowment, Centennial Major Acquisitions Income Fund, Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund, Wirt D. Walker Fund, Gladys N. Anderson Fund, Robert Allerton Purchase Income Fund, Pauline Seipp Armstrong Fund, Edward E. Ayer Fund in Memory of Charles L. Hutchinson, The Marian and Samuel Klasstorner Fund, Helen A. Regenstein Endowment, Director's Fund, Maurice D. Galleher Endowment, Laura T. Magnuson Acquisition Fund, Samuel A. Marx Purchase Fund for Major Acquisitions, Edward Johnson Fund, Harry and Maribel G. Blum Endowment, Bessie Bennett Fund, Hugh Leander and Mary Trumbull Adams Memorial Endowment, Wentworth Greene Field Memorial Fund, Elizabeth R. Vaughn Fund, Capital Campaign General Acquisitions Endowment, European Decorative Arts Purchase Fund, Samuel P. Avery Fund, Mrs. Wendell Fentress Ott Fund, Irving and June Seaman Endowment Fund, Grand J. Pick Purchase Fund, Betty Bell Spooner Fund, Charles U. Harris Endowed Acquisition Fund, 2007.105