The 10 cm high baby elephant with a raised trunk is one of the manufactory's most successful models

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This captures the poetry of the natural model from which they are inspired

Graphic elements such as the belt buckle with the initials RD

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pinguin Nashorn The 10 cm high babyThe international career of the Nymphenburg animal figures began at the beginning of the 20th century. Artists such as Theodor Krner, Josef Wackerle, August Ghring and Luise Terletzki Scherf shaped the unmistakable style of the manufactory by giving their figures an idiosyncratic character in addition to a lifelike representation and unique colours. Today the Nymphenburg range includes over 700 animal figurines. To be immortalized as an artifact is by