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...“I grew up surrounded with art, but traditional art, notably Sèvres and Meissen porcelain, which my mother collected,” she explains....
...“I have no explanation for it,” says Ulrich Reusch, the CDU’s regional chairman in Meissen....
...The project began in 2010 as a competition set up by the then mayor, Michael Bloomberg, in an effort to give New York a technology-focused institution that would rival Caltech, Stanford and MIT, Huttenlocher...
...There are Ming vases, crystal sconces, family portraits by Van Dyck and Reynolds and Sargent, swords, Meissen dinner services, antiquarian books and the fabulous Blenheim tapestries....
...That’s what we learn from Edmund de Waal’s The Hare with Amber Eyes, or from Bruce Chatwin’s earlier book Utz, about an obsessive collector of Meissen....
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