Dresden Porcelain Project
Author(s): Linda Pomper
Year: 2018
Summary
I am an art historian and I am involved in the Dresden Porcelain Project. August the Strong (1630-1730) was Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, was the greatest collector of Chinese and Japanese porcelain of this time. His collection of over 8500 pieces is now being catalogued and put on the web by a team of scholars. Because the collection was inventoried twice, in 1721 and again later in the 18th century, it is extremely important. I will show some examples of Kangxi (1662-1722) blue and white porcelain from the collection because pieces like these can be found in American contexts. I have studied Chinese porcelain in many American sites, and I think that knowing about this web site can be important for archaeologists who want to date the sherds they find..
Cite this Record
Dresden Porcelain Project. Linda Pomper. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441583)
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Keywords
General
Important
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inventoried
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Porcelain
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
18th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 114