Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for European Courts, is a unique exhibition of rare 18th-century Meissen gifts, many of which are on view in the United States for the first time. The exhibition, curated by Maureen Cassidy-Geiger, curator of The Arnhold Collection, Dresden/New York, has on display nearly 300 objects loaned by leading institutions and private collections in this country and abroad, including the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam; the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; the royal collections of Denmark and Sweden; the Albani Diocesan Museum, Urbino, Italy; and several major collections in Germany including the state art collections of Saxony, Hesse- Kassel, Berlin-Brandenburg, and Bavaria. Many North American collections are also represented, including the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto; the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library, New York; the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford; and the Stout Collection in the Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis.