Kurpfälzisches Museum
Baroque palace museum of Palatinate art and history, with an electress's rare dinner silver.
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This guide to the Kurpfälzisches Museum in Heidelberg follows one dinner service, ordered from Strasbourg silversmiths in the seventeen sixties for Electress Elisabeth Auguste and her country château at Oggersheim. It traces the silver through a niece, the Bavarian dukes, a Paris dealer and a private collector across two centuries. Best heard standing at the glass case with the electress's silver.
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