Catalogue of the exhibition held at Hetjens-Museum, Deutsches Keramikmuseum, Düsseldorf 19.01.-06.04.1997 and of Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Porzellansammlung im Zwinger, held at Albertinum, 07.05.- 13.07.1997, Munich 1997

 

English edition of the catalogue of the exhibition held at Amira-Palais, Munich, 20th october – 18th November 2006, Munich 2008

Powdered tobacco, originally used in Europe as a medicine, became a fashionable  stimulant in high society during the eighteenth century. Precious little containers, known as tabatières (snuffboxes), were important accessories for elegant ladies and gentlemen. The publication presents 124 of the finest snuffboxes from private collections and with essays by S.-K. Acevedo, B. Beaucamp-Markowsky, H. Ottomeyer, U. Pietsch, M. Röbbig-Reyes, L. Seelig, H. Zech

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Switzerland is well-known for its host of remarkable collections of eighteenth-century European porcelain. Exemplary representatives of these are such extraordinary collector personalities as Albert Kocher or Dr Marcel Nyffeler. A number of these magnificent collections can be found today – as a result of endowments or gifts – in Switzerland’s renowned institutions. Today the ‘white gold’ from Saxony still fascinates Swiss connoisseurs: this publication is dedicated to their passionate collecting and exceptional treasures and is enriched by articles by renowned art historians and porcelain experts.

The English catalogue will be released in December 2020