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A decade in development, the online catalogue for Dresden’s Royal East Asian Porcelain collection was recently launched by Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden:

The Dresden Porcelain Project
Researching the Royal East Asian Collection and the Japanese Palace Inventories

From 2014 to 2024, the Porzellansammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, has been the subject of a collaboration between an international team of specialists on an extensive research project aimed at cataloguing the collection of East Asian porcelain owned by Augustus the Strong (1670–1733). Of the initially more than 29,000 Chinese and Japanese ceramic objects, about 8200 are still extant in the Porzellansammlung today. The Japanese Palace Inventories were transcribed, translated and analysed as part of the research into the objects’ provenance.

The project’s findings are available here on the digital platform. The Royal Dresden Porcelain Collection is a publication of the Porzellansammlung. It showcases the objects and emphasises the historical context of the collection.

Team
Cora Würmell, Project Leader
Christiaan J. A. Jörg, Academic Supervisor
Karolin Randhahn, Research Associate
Ruth Sonja Simonis, Research Associate

Advisory Board
John Ayers
Helen Espir
Jessica Harrison-Hall
Peter Lam
Hiroko Nishida
Kōji Ōhashi
Rosemary Scott

Authors
Caroline Allen, Masaaki Arakawa, Eline van den Berg, Denise A. Campbell, Jan van Campen, Teresa Canepa, Menno Fitski, Ron Fuchs II, Tomoko Fujiwara, Ernst Geppert, Christiaan J. A. Jörg, Rose Kerr, Regina Krahl, Anette Loesch, Hiroko Nishida, Kōji Ōhashi, Linda Pomper, Karolin Randhahn, Maura Rinaldi, Miki Sakuraba, William R. Sargent, Ruth Sonja Simonis, Filip Suchomel, Daniel Suebsman, Yue Sun, Heike Ulbricht, Ching-Ling Wang, Liang-Chung Wang, Wen-Ting Wu, Cora Würmell, Pei-Chin Yu

More information and additional credits can be found here»