Obsolete, the art of porcelain?
It's because you've never been to Dresden.
With its 23,000 ancient ceramics, the Porzellansammlung is one of the most astonishing follies of the Zwinger Palace, former place of pleasure of the kings of Saxony.
Created in an old orangery by Auguste Le Fort (1670-1733), it is the expression of the passion for
“white gold”
developed by this prince-elector who was also King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania.
He himself said ironically that he had
"porcelain disease"
.
In 1710, the factory he created near Dresden, in Meissen, was the first to produce the famous hard paste outside of China and Japan after two centuries of fruitless research in Europe.
The taste for Asia, fed until then by the Dutch East India Company, could henceforth spread;
the Saxon copies and variations being less expensive.
Saturation without complex
The past centuries with their processions of upheavals and destruction, decision has been taken
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