Currently the extensive holdings of East Asian porcelain from the collection of Augustus the Strong, which still contain around 8,000 items, are being catalogued within the context of an international research project. The new items to be included, together with scholarly texts and commentaries, will be published in a digital catalogue linking the porcelain with the surviving historical inventories.
The Porcelain Collection owes its position as the world’s most important historically documented reference collection of early Meissen porcelain to the collecting activities of Augustus the Strong and his son August III. From 2018 to 2021 all the surviving pieces in this unique reference collection were identified, digitalized and systematically catalogued.
The eminent Dresden banker Gustav von Klemperer (Edler von Klemenau) and his wife Charlotte were the owners of what was, with over nine hundred objects, arguably the largest and most important collection of eighteenth-century Meissen porcelain in all Germany. Aim of the project was to establish the paths along which the porcelain objects came to be lost and to investigate the persecution of the von Klemperer family.
