LECTURE PROGRAMME 2008
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First lecture chosen: £26 per
person to include handbook and one Fair admission.
Each subsequent lecture chosen: £14 to include Fair admission.
STELLA
BEDDOE
Senior Keeper and Keeper of Decorative Art, Brighton & Hove Museums
A1 Thursday 12th June, 2.15pm – 3.15pm
CHINESE WHISPERS: BRITISH CHINOISERIE CERAMICS C1700-1850
The arrival of Chinese porcelain in Britain led the potters to seek the recipe and to imitate the designs. At first they made close copies of Chinese idols, Buddhist motifs and other surface patterns but with the growth of demand for teawares, in which to serve that other great Chinese export, they were stimulated to produce highly original forms and extraordinarily imaginative decoration.
ANTON
GABSZEWICZ
Independent Ceramic Consultant, London
A2 Thursday 12th June, 3.45 – 4.45pm
‘AS BIG AT THE LIFE’: NATURALISM AT CHELSEA
During the 1750’s Sprimont advertised an extensive variety of zoomorphic forms and tureens, boxes and services in the form of leaves, fruits and vegetables for ‘desart’. These and the ‘Hans Sloane’ botanical decoration are of an inventiveness and quality hitherto unseen in English porcelain. This short-lived passion for naturalism represents the apogee of Sprimont’s entrepreneurial prowess.
ELISABETTA DAL CARLO
Curator and Conservator, Querini Stampalia Museum
A3 Thursday 12th June, 5.00 – 6.00 pm
SÈVRES PORCELAIN ON THE TABLE OF A VENETIAN NOBLE FAMILY
Introduction to the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice and its museum; history of Alvise Querini Stampalia (last Venetian Ambassador to Paris, 1795–97) and his life in the French capital, discussing the pâte tendre Sèvres porcelain service he purchased from Sèvres in 1795-1796. The service comprises 244 pieces of around 50 bisque figures for the table centrepiece and the service for l’entrée and le dessert. Alvise’s centrepiece consists of several groups of figures and vases in the Louis XV and Louis XVI style, with the Triomphe de la Beauté group originally created by Boizot for Marie Antoinette in 1775-76.
ANTHONY DU BOULAY, FSA
Author and Lecturer
B1 Friday 13th June, 11.30am – 12.30pm
ENGLISH CERAMICS IN NATIONAL TRUST HOUSES
The National Trust has amongst its great variety of properties some eighty-four houses containing ceramics that are of interest. Most are of the 18th century though the range is from the 14th-20th centuries. If the best pieces were congregated under one roof the collections would rival any of the greatest museums in the world. This lecture, however, will confine itself to English porcelain and pottery made between c. 1650 and c. 1800, picking out unusual or exceptional pieces.
DR
GEOFFREY GODDEN
Author and Lecturer
B2 Friday 13th June, 3.00pm – 4.00pm
A FRESH LOOK AT (OR VIEW OF) EIGHTEENTH CENTURY CHINESE EXPORT MARKET PORCELAINS
Geoffrey Godden uses his research into the original archives of the English East India Company to show and explain the extent and scope of the private trading carried on between Canton and London in the eighteenth century. This went far deeper than the well-known armorial decorated porcelains as will be explained.
DR SAMUEL WITTWER
Director of Palaces and Collections
at the Prussian Palaces
and Gardens Foundation
B3 Friday 13th June, 4.30pm - 5.30pm
Interior Decoration and War Trophies – The
Porcelain Table Services of Frederick the Great of Prussia.
Frederick the Great of Prussia discovered his love for porcelain during the Seven years War (1756-63). He became interested in the concept of porcelain as part of a decorative scheme within the State rooms. As a result both the Meissen manufactory and the Berlin KPM factory produced more than 30 court services to highlight the splendour of the Prussian Palaces.
ROGER MASSEY
Lecturer and author
C1 Saturday 14th June 11.30 am – 12.30 pm
ARMORIAL CERAMICS IN 18TH CENTURY ENGLAND
Armorial pottery and porcelain was highly fashionable in 18th century England. This lecture will examine both domestic and imported armorial ceramics. Consideration will be given to the cultural and social significance of heraldry. There will also be a brief discussion of the use of heraldry in other branches of the decorative arts.
RICHARD BURT
Head of History, RGSAO Worcester, co-author with Simon Spero Lund’s
Bristol and Early Worcester Porcelain. The A J Smith Collection.
C2 Saturday 14th June, 3.00 – 4.00 pm
DR WALL, CITY POLITICS AND THE ICONOGRAPHY OF THE TRACEY MUG
This lecture examines in depth one of the more enigmatic pieces in the Museum of Worcester porcelain and seeks to show how the decoration of early 18th century porcelain can be placed within a wider political and artistic context, helping us to understand how the new medium could be exploited for more than commercial ends.
DR
ANDREINA D’AGLIANO
Author and Lecturer
C3 Saturday 14th June, 4.30 – 5.30 pm
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ITALIAN PORCELAIN COLLECTION IN THE MUSEO CIVICO IN TORINO: MASSIMO D’AZEGLIO AND HIS COLLECTION
The Italian porcelain collection, today in the Museo Civico of Turin, was mostly assembled by Massimo d’Azeglio during his stay in London as Ambassador to the King of Sardinia. In this lecture the author will discuss some of the most important pieces in the collection as well as some aspects of d’Azeglio’s personality as a porcelain collector and his relation to the XIX century market.
DR
SUSAN JENKINS
Senior Curator, Special Projects for English Heritage and has
curatorial responsibility for Apsley House, writer and lecturer.
D1 Sunday 15th June, 11.30am – 12.30pm
APSLEY HOUSE – PORCELAIN FOR A NATION’S HERO: GIFTS FOR THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON
Apsley House, on Hyde Park Corner is home to a magnificent collection of European porcelain from the factories of Meissen, KPM, Sèvres and Vienna. The services displayed here were given to the 1st Duke of Wellington in the years immediately after the Battle of Waterloo (1815) by grateful European rulers. This lecture will look at the politics behind the gifts and examine the different services that were presented to Wellington.
LESLIE B
GRIGSBY
Curator of Ceramics and Glass, Winterthur Museum, Delaware
D2 Sunday 15th June, 2.30 – 3.30pm
“ONE BOWL MORE AND THEN…”: ENGLISH DRINKING VESSELS AND TRADITIONS IN COLONIAL AMERICA
This object-rich talk focuses upon alcoholic beverage ware and associated traditions in the American colonies. Supported by evidence drawn from archaeology and period documents, the discussion will illustrate that imported English drinking vessels—from slipware to delftware, salt-glazed stoneware and soft paste porcelain—were employed in modest homes and taverns as well as in more elegant settings and at formal public and private celebrations.
DR des
DANIELA ANTONIN
Assistant Director of the Hetjens-Museum for German ceramics
Düsseldorf
Curator of the Schneider Collection in Jaegerhof Manor
D3 Sunday 15th June, 4pm – 5pm
THE MEISSEN PORCELAINS OF THE BAVARIAN ELECTORS – HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE HISTORICAL COLLECTION IN MUNICH
The porcelain collection of the Bavarian electors Max Emanuel (1662 – 1726), Carl Albrecht (1697–1745, from 1742 Emperor Carl VII.) and Max III. Joseph (1727–1777) from the House of Wittelsbach is one of the oldest collections of this renowned Saxon porcelain in the world. The collection was divided twice and was not subsequently viewed as a whole. Daniela Antonin's 2006 dissertation traces the origins of the Meissen porcelains of the House of Electors, currently housed in the Munich Residence, in the Bavarian National Museum and administered by the Wittelsbach Equalisation fund, and also re-catalogues them. In her presentation, she will discuss selected works from the historic porcelain collection of the House of Wittelsbach