There is still a copy of that Voltaire porcellain bust at Sanssouci!
Today, it's in the "Voltaire Room", of course. Missing someone reciting the Henriade to it. That really is a wonderful and so telling story.
Tiny correction of KPM - while it's true it didn't exist under that name yet, which was only provided by Fritz post war - it did exist in its earlier form as the Wegely'sche Manufaktur, which was founded in 1751, then sold from Wegely to Gotzkowsky in 1757 because SOMEONE suddenly had access to all the Saxon porcellain they could want and Wegely, to whom Fritz had been his primary patron, promptly went broke. Gotzkowsky kept it going until 1763, and then Fritz bought the factory and renamed it.
(I had to look this up last year at the KPM website because reasons.)
Re: Voltaire, Fritz, and statues
Today, it's in the "Voltaire Room", of course. Missing someone reciting the Henriade to it. That really is a wonderful and so telling story.
Tiny correction of KPM - while it's true it didn't exist under that name yet, which was only provided by Fritz post war - it did exist in its earlier form as the Wegely'sche Manufaktur, which was founded in 1751, then sold from Wegely to Gotzkowsky in 1757 because SOMEONE suddenly had access to all the Saxon porcellain they could want and Wegely, to whom Fritz had been his primary patron, promptly went broke. Gotzkowsky kept it going until 1763, and then Fritz bought the factory and renamed it.
(I had to look this up last year at the KPM website because reasons.)