From the May 2024 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. The so-called golden age of Meissen, Europe’s first producer of porcelain, is closely associated with two names: Augustus II the Strong (1670–1733), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, and the court sculptor and master modeller Johann Joachim Kändler (1706–75). After the invention of European hard-paste porcelain by Johann Friedrich…
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