The exhibition also has New York-made silver and porcelain works.
Augustus the Strong thus opened Europe's first porcelain works at Meissen in 1710, under Böttger's direction.
He explores the demands of emperors and kings, centuries even before we reach the porcelain works at Dachau.
Osborne spoke as he toured the Royal Crown Derby porcelain works, where he was highlighting changes announced in this year's budget.
First produced in 1747, Nymphenburg porcelains are not as famous or as collectible as those from Meissen, an older and larger porcelain works in Germany.
Polishing windows to perfect clarity, scrubbing porcelain, working caustic chemicals into the tiles until they gleamed like teeth; all this detached her mind from herself.
The proudly kitsch Banality series, medium-sized wood and porcelain works of subjects such as Michael Jackson and his pet chimpanzee, Bubbles, still affronts and generates an agreeable queasiness.
Mr. Lagerfeld is selling 400 pieces of 18th-century French furniture, silver, porcelain, works of art and textiles at Christie's in Monaco on April 28 and 29.
He also owns the former royal Prussian porcelain works, the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur which, come to think of it, would be an excellent location for one of Mr Bond's adventures.
The exhibition, which also has New York-made silver and porcelain works, will run through Feb. 17. Tuesdays through Fridays, 9 30 a.m. to 5 15 p.m.; Saturdays, 9 30 a.m. to 4 45 p.m.; closed Mondays, by appointment Sundays.
