![Meissner-service in [lang_de]300 Jahre „Weißes Gold“[/lang_de][lang_en]300 years of the „White Gold“[/lang_en]](http://www.dresdenwalks.com/wp-content/gallery/dresdenwalks-illu/meissner-service.jpg)
All around the world the porcelain with the crossed swords is known, manufactured for 300 years in MeiĂźen. With two exhibitions Saxony celebrates the founding of the MeiĂźen Porcelain Manufacture 300 years ago. On the Albrechtsburg in MeiĂźen one can see the show “The Philosopher’s Stone” displayed on 1600 sqm exhibition space. The historic building served as the home of the porcelain manufacture from 1710 to 1863 with up to 800 employees.
Furthermore in the Japanese Palais in Dresden opened the exhibition “Triumph of the Blue Swords”. It unites about 800 precious porcelains, amongst them vases, coffee services, chocolate cups and tobacco tins. The exhibits provide the visitors an overview of the time between Baroque and Biedermeier. Next to the inventories of the Dresden State of Art Collections there are also national and foreign items on loan.
On 23rd January 1710 Augustus the Strong proclaimed in a decree the founding of the porcelain manufacture. For a long time porcelain had to be imported expensively from China. The alchemist Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682-1719) succeeded in producing the European Porcelain – the “White Gold”.
(K. Michael)
