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The Porcelain Cabinet in the tower room of Dresden's Royal Palace

Title: The Porcelain Cabinet in the tower room of Dresden's Royal Palace / with contributions by Christiane Ernek-van der Goes [and 6 others] ; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung, Anette Loesch.
Author: Dresdener Porzellansammlung, author, owner of collection.
Publication: Dresden : Sandstein Verlag, [2019]

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319 pages : many illustrations (partly color); 31 cm

Summary

For a good two hundred years the Tower Room on the piano nobile of the Dresden Residence served as a unique showroom for the electoral-royal porcelain collection. Here, alongside vases from China and Japan, King August III presented the finest products of his manufactory at Meissen, on gilded consoles against red-lacquered wall panels. In the bombing of Dresden in February 1945 the royal palace was almost entirely consumed by fire; as for the porcelain pieces, despite having been evacuated in 1943, the majority of them fell prey to plundering and destruction. Now that the porcelain cabinet has been reconstructed, some of the extant pieces, notably the spectacular Elements garniture modelled by Johann Joachim Kaendler and two Dragoons vases, can be displayed again. Additionally, ten silver guéridons serve as a reminder of the room's earlier function as a Silver Buffet. This book traces the history of the cabinet from its origins in the 1730s to its destruction in 1945. It includes a comprehensive Catalogue section in which the losses from the Tower Room's holdings are presented on the basis of the documentation of the porcelain collection undertaken in 1941.

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Genre/Form

Catalogs.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-305).

Call Number

JQG 20-677

ISBN

9783954985029
3954985020

LCCN

2020464028

OCLC

1127977488

Author

Dresdener Porzellansammlung, author, owner of collection.

Title

The Porcelain Cabinet in the tower room of Dresden's Royal Palace / with contributions by Christiane Ernek-van der Goes [and 6 others] ; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung, Anette Loesch.

Publisher

Dresden : Sandstein Verlag, [2019]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-305).

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Added Author

Ernek-van der Goes, Christiane, contributor.

Dresdner Schloss (Museum), issuing body.

Dresdener Porzellansammlung, issuing body.

Other Form:

9783954985012

Research Call Number

JQG 20-677

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