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WELCOME

 

The Connecticut Ceramics Circle is pleased to

announce our Speakers and Membership Plans

for the 2024-2025  lecture year AND a new

MEMBERS ONLY benefit!

Nicola Turner Inman      Denise Patry Leidy      Vanessa Sigalas  

    Francis Marrone      Patricia Ferguson      Stephen Harrison     

Femke Diercks     Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth

October 14: Chinoiserie: The Art of the Exotic in the Royal Collection, by Nicola Turner Inman, Curator of Decorative Arts, The Royal Collection Trust, St. James's Palace, London, via Zoom.

November 11Back and Forth: Clay and Glass, China and West Asia, 6th-12th Century, by Denise Patry Leidy, Ph.D., Ruth and Bruce Dayton Curator of Asian Art, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, and Brooke Russell Astor Curator of Chinese Art Emerita, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, in person at the Bruce Museum and via Zoom.

December 9: All Walks of Life: Meissen Porcelain Figures of the Eighteenth Century, by Dr. Vanessa Sigalas, Associate Curator for Collections Research, the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum in Hartford, CT, via Zoom.

January 13: City of Tiles: New York from Subway Stations to the Tops of Skyscrapers, by Francis Morrone, Architectural Historian and Critic, and Historic Preservation Consultant, via Zoom.

February 10: SEMINAR: Ceramics in the English Country Houses of the National Trust: Asian Stories and European Stories, by Patricia Ferguson, Former Curator, the British Museum and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, and Honorary Advisor on Ceramics to the National Trust, via Zoom.

March 10: Modernist Ceramics Between the Wars, by Stephen Harrison, Director and Chief Curator, the Munson Museum of Art, Utica, NY, via Zoom.

April 14: At Home in the Seventeenth Century, by Femke Diercks, Head of the Decorative Arts Department, the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, via Zoom.

May 12: The Extraordinary Art Collection of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, by Dr. Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, in person at the Bruce Museum and via Zoom.

These presentations are for educational purposes only. Opinions or views expressed are solely those of the speaker and do not represent those of the Connecticut Ceramics Circle.

OCTOBER

Nicola Turner Inman

Chinoiserie: The Art of the Exotic

in the Royal Collection

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Chinese Porcelain Turquoise-Glazed Lotus Leaf-Form Inkstand and Candle-Holder, 1700-50, with gilt-bronze mounts, mid-18th century. Length 9 7/8” (25 cm.).  (RCIN 4945). Photo credit: Royal Collection Trust / © His Majesty King Charles III 2024.

October 14, 2024

2 PM ET

ZOOM

NOVEMBER

Denise Patry Leidy

Back and Forth; Clay and Glass;

China and West Asia,

6th - 12th Century

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Jar, China, first half of the 8th century. Earthenware with three-color (sancai) glaze, H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm.). Bequest of Charles Bain Hoyt – Charles Bain Hoyt Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 50.895.

November 11, 2024

2 PM ET

November 12, 2024

2 PM ET

LIVE

DECEMBER

Vanessa Sigalas

All Walks of Life:

Meissen Porcelain Figures of

the Eighteenth Century

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Pair of Figures of “Beggar Musicians,” German, Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, models by Johann Joachim Kaendler (1706–1775). Original year of modelling: c. 1736; beggar-woman reworked later. Date of porcelain paste: both c. 1730–65; date of decoration: both 18th century. Hard-paste porcelain. Man: Blue crossed swords mark on base; woman: no marks. Heights: man 5 ¼ in. (13.4 cm.); woman 5 1/8 in. (13 cm.). Model no. man: 918; woman: 915. Shimmerman Collection nos. MPBP_16 & 17.

December 9, 2024

2 PM ET

ZOOM

JANUARY

Francis Morrone

City of Tiles:

New York from Subway Stations

to the Tops of Skyscrapers

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January 13, 2025

2 PM ET

ZOOM

FEBRUARY SEMINAR

Patricia Ferguson

and

Ceramics in the

English Country Houses

of the National Trust

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Part I: Asian Stories

Part II: European Stories

two lectures

February 10, 2025

ZOOM

1 PM ET

MARCH

Stephen Harrison

Modernist Ceramics 

Between the Wars

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March 10, 2025

ZOOM

APRIL

Femke Diercks

At Home

in the Seventeenth Century

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April 14, 2025

ZOOM

MAY

Caroline

McCaffrey-Howarth

The Extraordinary Life

of Lady Charlotte Schreiber

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Dates and Zoom link coming soon

LIVE and ZOOM

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