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..

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Dresden Porcelain Project. Linda Pomper. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441583)

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Keywords

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