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Highlight Tour

Stories and background information on selected highlights of porcelain art from China, Japan and Meissen testify to the high esteem in which this exotic material was held in the Baroque era. Get inspired by Augustus the Strong’s great passion for porcelain - the legendary Dresden "maladie de porcelaine" or porcelain disease!

Exhibition venue
Zwinger, Dresden
Participating collections
Porzellansammlung
Duration
60 minutes

Access to the Porcelain Collection

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Access to the Porcelain Collection

Zwinger

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Zwinger

Directions 1

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Directions 1

Wall display with Chinese blue-and-white porcelain

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Wall display with Chinese blue-and-white porcelain

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Fish basin

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Fish basin

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Covered vase

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Covered vase

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Dragoon vase

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Dragoon vase

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Guanyin, Buddhist bodhisattva of compassion

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Guanyin, Buddhist bodhisattva of compassion

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Macaw Climbing Down a Tree Trunk

Kaendler, Johann Joachim (1706-1775) | Modeller

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Macaw Climbing Down a Tree Trunk

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Tureen with Galatea from the Swan Service for Count Heinrich von Brühl

Kaendler, Johann Joachim (1706-1775) | Chief Modeller
Eberlein, Johann Friedrich (1706-1775) | Modeller

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Tureen with Galatea from the Swan Service for Count Heinrich von Brühl

Directions 8

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Beaker vase

Höroldt, Johann Gregorius (1696-1775) attributed to | Painter
Stadler, Johann Ehrenfried (1696-1775) attributed to | Painter

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Beaker vase

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Bouquet of Porcelain Flowers from Vincennes

Duplessis, Jean-Claude Chambellan (1699-1774) | Goldsmith
le Boitteux, Claude (1699-1774) | Goldsmith

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Bouquet of Porcelain Flowers from Vincennes

Directions 10

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Model of King August III’s Equestrian Statue

Kaendler, Johann Joachim (1706-1775) | Modeller
August III. (1706-1775) | Person(s) shown

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Model of King August III’s Equestrian Statue

Directions 11

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Directions 11

Pandur

Eberlein, Johann Friedrich (1696-1749) | Modeller

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Pandur

Goodbye!

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Goodbye!

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