Enfilade

Johann Michael Ludwig Rohrer, Favorite Palace (Schloss Favorite), Rastatt (12 km north of Baden-Baden), 1710–30. Located near the primary residential palace at Rastatt, Schloss Favorite was created as a ‘porcelain palace’ for Margravine Sibylla Augusta and used mainly in the summer months for festivities including concerts and banquets. Schloss Favorite now houses the world’s largest collection of early Meissen porcelain.

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From the conference programme:

Favorite Palace: Interior Decoration and Collections
Schloss Favorite: Ausstattung und Sammlungen
In person and online, Residenzschloss Rastatt, 17–19 September 2023

Registration due by 28 August 2023

Favorite Palace in Rastatt, built between 1710 and 1729 by Margravine Sibylla Augusta of Baden-Baden (1675–1733), is the only almost unchanged Baroque ‘porcelain palace’ in Germany. This conference will present recent scientific findings on the history of the palace, its interior decoration, and its collections. A special focus will be on the chinoiserie furnishings, as well as on Asian and European ceramics. The conference aims to honor the ensemble created by the builder and collector, Sibylla Augusta, in the context of early 18th-century European art.

There is no conference fee, but advanced registration is essential (by 28 August 2023). The conference will be translated by interpreters and streamed online in German and English. Please indicate when registering whether you would like to attend in person or online. You will receive the participation link as well as information on hotels and parking spaces after registration.

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10.00–1.00  Guided tours of Favorite Palace (optional, by appointment)

1.15  Reception Desk Open

2.00  Welcome by Patricia Alberth (Geschäftsführerin der Staatlichen Schlösser und Gärten Baden-Württemberg) and Anton Schweizer (Kyushu University, Japan)

2.15  Section 1 | Chinoiseries in the Decoration and Festive Culture of Sibylla Augusta
Moderation: Anton Schweizer (Kyushu University)
• ‘Dan die Chinesisch und Japanische Kajser würden selber in vergnügteste Entzückung gesezet werden’: Zur Chinoiserie in der Favorite — Ulrike Grimm (Oberkonservatorin a. D., Karlsruhe)
• Die japanischen Textilappliken im Schlafzimmer des Erbprinzen Ludwig Georg: Kontext und Bedeutung — Anton Schweizer (Kyushu University, Japan)
• ‘China-Mode’ and Court Culture in Early 18th-Century Europe: Sibylla Augusta’s Chinese Banquet in Ettlingen in 1729 — Kristel Smentek (MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts)
• ‘Admirable Abzeichnungen’: Herstellung, Verbreitung und Überlieferung der Stichserie zum Chinesischen Fest 1729 in Ettlingen von Johann Christian Leopold — Christian Katschmanowski (SSG)

5.45  Refreshments

7.30  Evening Lecture
• Zwischen Botschaft und Typologie: Die Bildprogramme der Decken, Wände und Textilien — Ulrike Seeger (Universität Stuttgart / Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)

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8.30  Reception Desk Open

9.00  Section 2 | Porcelain and Stoneware from Asia and Europe
Moderation: Ulrike Grimm (Oberkonservatorin a. D., Karlsruhe)
• Asian Art in the Collections of the Sachsen-Lauenburg Family in the Context of Inventories from Other Collections in the Czech Lands — Filip Suchomel (Regional Gallery, Liberec / UMPRUM, Prague)
• The Redwares of Sibylla Augusta of Baden-Baden and Their Global Context — Errol Manners (E & H Manners Ltd., London)
• Eine Eremitage in Blau: Ostasiatisches Porzellan, Exotismus und Weltflucht à la Chine in Schloss Favorite — Stephan Graf von der Schulenburg (Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt)
• Meissen Porcelain in Schloss Favorite: Revisiting and Rethinking a Legendary Collection — Maureen Cassidy-Geiger (Independent Scholar and Curator, New York)

12.45  Lunch Break

2.00  Section 3 | Special Equipment Pieces in Focus
Moderation: Petra Pechaček (SSG)
• Baden-badische ‘Masquera- und Comodianten Kleyder’: Die Kostümbilder als Ausdruck fürstlichen Ranges und wirtschaftlicher Leistungskraft — Hertha Schwarz (Freie Historikerin, München)
• Mixed media und eine Welt von Bedeutungen: Die textile Ausstattung von Schloss Favorite — Birgitt Borkopp-Restle (Universität Bern)
• Licht ins Dunkel: Der böhmische Kronleuchter aus dem Schlafzimmer des Erbprinzen Ludwig Georg — Käthe Klappenbach (Kustodin a. D., SPSG, Potsdam)

5.00  Guided tour of the palace church accompanied by organ music — Sigrid Gensichen and Jürgen Ochs

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8.30  Reception Desk Open

9.00  Section 4 | The Palace and Its Collections after Sibylla Augusta
Moderation und Einführung: Sandra Eberle (SSG)
• Produkte der kurbayerischen Verwandtschaft: Ein Porzellangarten zur Hochzeit Ludwig Georgs 1755 und eine Parforcejagd aus Terracotta — Katharina Hantschmann (Bayerisches Nationalmuseum München)
• Das Straßburger Fayence-Service aus Schloss Favorite, 1748–1753 — Jacques Bastian (Antiquités Bastian, Straßburg)

10.30  Wrap-up

11.45  Shuttle to Favorite Palace

12.00  Lunch Snack at Favorite Palace

1.00  Tours of Favorite Palace (guided by speakers)