Orientations (May/Jun, 2024)
One of the places I visited during my hiatus from Hong Kong in 2022 was Dresden, a city that endured extensive British and American aerial bombing in World War II. As the traditional capital of Saxony in Germany, it is home to numerous historic landmarks and museums. The royal East Asian ceramic collection of more than 8,000 objects at the Porzellansammlung (Porcelain Collection) of the Staatliche Kunstammlugen Dresden (Dresden State Art Collections) is renowned among ceramics enthusiasts. This issue celebrates the culmination of the Dresden Porcelain Project, an initiative launched in 2014 to digitize and research this historic collection, one of the largest East Asian reference collections in the world—now published in its entirety on a new interactive website. This unique group of objects provides a snapshot of collecting in the West and the ceramics trade between Asia and Europe from the late 16th to the early 18th century. Without a doubt, the project is an enormous contribution to the field and will hopefully inspire others to embark upon similar programmes to make their collections more accessible.
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| Publisher | Yifawn Lee |
| Language | English |
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| ISSN | 0030-5448 |
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| Issue | May/Jun, 2024 |