2023-2024 Program
2023
October 16 and 17: “Four Centuries of Blue and White: the Frelinghuysen Collection of Chinese and Japanese Export Porcelain,” by Becky MacGuire, Independent Consultant, Former Senior Specialist for Chinese Export Art at Christie’s NY, in person (October 16) and via Zoom (October 17).
November 13: “Dr. Wall’s Triumph: Early Worcester Porcelain from the First Period of Production, 1751-1776, and Where It is Now!” by Paul Crane FSA, Independent Historian and Consultant to the Brian Haughton Gallery, London, England, via Zoom.
December 11: “An Introduction to Vienna Porcelain: From the Baroque Fantasies of du Paquier to the Challenge of Contemporary Table Culture,” by Dr. Claudia Lehner-Jobst, Art Historian and Director of the Augarten Porcelain Museum, Vienna, Austria, via Zoom.
2024
January 8: “Ceramics from the Vanished Byzantine Empire,” by Eunice Maguire, Scholar, Worcestershire, England, via Zoom.
February 12: “Frozen Treats: The Development of the Ice Cream Cooler,” by Ivan Day, Independent Historian of Social History and of the Culture of Food, Cumbria, England, via Zoom.
March 11: “Harlots, Rakes and Crashing China – an Accidental Introduction to 18th-Century Ceramics,” by Lars Tharp, Historian, Lecturer and Broadcaster, Leicestershire, England, via Zoom.
April 8 Seminar: "Changing Times, New Techniques: Sèvres Porcelain 1770 - 1850," two lectures by John Whitehead, Scholar, Author and Dealer in French Porcelain, Le Pin, France, via Zoom.
May 20: “Private Eye: How a Curatorial Vision Influenced a Personal Collection,” by Ulysses Grant Dietz, Chief Curator Emeritus, the Newark Museum, New Jersey, in person and via Zoom.
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June 20: "Toshiko Takaezu: Shaping Abstraction," by Nonie Gadsden, Katharine Lane Weems Senior Curator of American Decorative Arts and Sculpture at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, via Zoom.
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