The Historical Collection
In the early 18th century, Augustus the Strong converted the Japanese Palace in Dresden into a porcelain castle to display his opulent collection of Chinese and Japanese porcelain. These royal holdings are still one of the world’s largest and most important East Asian reference collections from the 17th and 18th centuries. This is because 8000 of the initially more than 29,000 East Asian ceramic objects are still extant in the Porzellansammlung today, which, in combination with the preserved archival documents, make this collection unique.