SKD | Porcelain Collection
Royal porcelain hoard of Chinese, Japanese and Meissen treasures displayed in a Baroque pavilion.
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This guide to the Porcelain Collection in Dresden's Zwinger starts with an English traveller, Jonas Hanway, touring the vaults of a palace by the Elbe in seventeen fifty-three and hearing a remarkable boast from its keepers. It turns to Augustus the Strong, the Saxon ruler who joked about his own porcelain sickness, and to a bargain he struck with the King of Prussia in seventeen seventeen. Listen standing beside the tall blue-and-white Dragoon Vases.
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