The highly enthusiastic collector August the Strong, who founded the Royal Porcelain Collection in 1715, had the bold idea to display his treasures in the specially converted Japanese Palace. He died in 1733 and his plan was not realised. Today, the sheer splendour of the incomparably precious porcelain from China, Japan and Meissen can be experienced against the historic backdrop of the Zwinger. This book presents outstanding masterpieces from the collection, which comprises roughly 20,000 pieces: chinese procelain of the Kangxi era (1622–1722) and Japanese porcelain of the 17th and early 18th century, decorated in Imari- and Kakiemon style, and procelain from the contemporary manufactory in Meissen, which belonged to Augustus the Strong.weiterlesen