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 11: Back 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
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.
NOVEMBER
Denise Patry Leidy
Back and Forth; Clay and Glass;
China and West Asia,
6th - 12th Century
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.
DECEMBER
Vanessa Sigalas
All Walks of Life:
Meissen Porcelain Figures of
the Eighteenth Century
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.
JANUARY
Francis Morrone
City of Tiles:
New York from Subway Stations
to the Tops of Skyscrapers
January 13, 2025
2 PM ET
ZOOM
FEBRUARY SEMINAR
Patricia Ferguson
and
Ceramics in the
English Country Houses
of the National Trust
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
March 10, 2025
ZOOM
APRIL
Femke Diercks
At Home
in the Seventeenth Century
April 14, 2025
ZOOM
