This extraordinary porcelain goat, reintroduced by Karl Stein in 1922, is among a group of animal models adapted from the series originally created in the early 1730s for Augustus the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony. Augustus' plans for the building of the Japanese Palace in Dresden were the most ambitious of all his projects. The new building incorporated a smaller royal palace, which had housed a porcelain collection; it was to be a Porzellanschloss, entirely constructed around and devoted to the porcelain collections. The Great Gallery - the animal gallery - was to contain porcelain examples of both native and exotic specimens and even some mythical beasts. In the late 19th and 20th centuries Meissen reintroduced a few of these fantastic models in celebration of this grand tradition. An example of this model, circa 1732, is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (museum no. C.111-1932).