Isabelle Payot Wunderli – Project manager since 2016 at the Ariana Museum, Geneva; curator of the exhibition Meissen Folies de porcelain. Trésors dévoilés de collections suisses (7 Feb–6 Sept 2020). Before that, active at the Musée d’art et d’histoire in Geneva as curator of numerous exhibitions and specialising in Swiss painting. Haydn Williams – Formerly director and head of the portrait miniatures, objects of vertu, and Russian Works of Art Department at Sotheby’s, now an independent fine art consultant. Editor and principal author of Enamels of the World 1700–2000 and curator of the related exhibition in 2009–10 at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Published Turquerie, An Eighteenth-Century European Fantasy in 2014 and author of several privately printed collection catalogues. Contributor to the catalogue for the exhibition Treasures from the Al Thani Collection at the Palace Museum, Beijing, in 2018.
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Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo – Art historian with Galerie Röbbig, Munich. 2019 Doctoral thesis on the porcelain sculptures modelled by Johann Joachim Kaendler and his workshop. Several publications on various aspects of Meissen porcelain from the eighteenth century. Cordula Bischoff – Freelance art historian and exhibition curator, notably in Japan and China. 1989 PhD in Marburg, 2001 postdoctoral lecturing qualification in Trier. Numerous publications on the art of the sixteenth to eighteenth century, focal areas: gender research, court art, interiors and chinoiserie. 2014–17 Research project entitled Early Asiatic Works and Chinoiseries at the Saxon Court in Dresden’s Kupferstich-Kabinett (Prints Collection). Curated The Art of the Enlightenment, an exhibition in 2011–12 at the National Museum of China in Beijing. Claudia Bodinek – Trained as a porcelain painter, doctorate in art history. Research work on Meissen porcelain from the eighteenth century and its evaluation in cultural history terms, paying special attention to the graphic sources underpinning its painted decoration.
Thomas Michie – Senior Curator of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, since 2009. Trained in the history of art with degrees from Williams College (A.B.) and Yale University (M.Phil.). Author of exhibition and collection catalogues at MFA, Boston, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Rhode Island School of Design. …
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H idden Valuables
Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo, Claudia Bodinek, Alfredo Reyes, Röbbig München (eds)
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Meredith Chilton, CM – Curator Emerita of the Gardiner Museum in Toronto, Canada. Historian of early European porcelain as well as of dining and social culture in the eighteenth century.
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Switzerland is well-known for its host of remarkable collections of eighteenth- century European porcelain. The extraordinary collectors Albert Kocher and Marcel Nyffeler are two such exemplary representatives of these. Now, as a result of endowments or gifts, a number of these magnificent collections can be found in Switzerland’s prestigious institutions. Today Swiss connoisseurs are still fascinated by the ‘white gold’ from Saxony. This publication, enriched by articles by renowned art historians and porcelain experts, is dedicated to their passionate collecting and exceptional treasures. An impressive overview of the most precious Meissen porcelain of the early period!
early-period meissen porcelains from swiss private collections
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Hans Ottomeyer – Art historian with studies in London, Paris and Munich. 1967 Thesis on the Empire Style and Charles Percier. Curator at the Munich Stadtmuseum. 1995 Director of the Kassel Staatliche Museen, 2000–11 Director General of the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin. Publications on architecture and styles, political iconography, gilt bronzes, furniture and questions of design and display.
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