Silver and Porcelain Chamber

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Supervision and care were the domain of special pages. The renowned Prime Minister of the Electorate of Saxony, Heinrich von Brühl (1700-1763), son of the Weissenfels Court Marshal Hanns Moritz Brühl (1665-1727), began his career here as a “silver page”.

Fig. 4: Heinrich von Brühl (1700–1763) served as a page at Weissenfels Palace and later as prime minister of Saxony; portrait by Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779)