Lectures
V&A Learning Academy – Ceramics: Ancient to Modern
Victoria and Albert Museum
5th March 2019
11.10 Christoph Konrad Hunger and the spread of the secret of true porcelain to Vienna and beyond
12.30 Joseph Jacob Ringler and the establishment of the court factories
https://www.vam.ac.uk/event/dA3w5ZA9/ceramics-ancient-to-modern-2018-19
A group of 18th century London porcelains looking for a home
English Ceramic Circle -Kensington Town Hall
12th January 2019
Virtuoso lead-glazed ware of the Renaissance and beyond: Palissy and other traditions
Chancellors Hotel, Manchester
Northern Ceramic Society 15th Winter Weekend Seminar
26-28 January 2018
www.northernceramicsociety.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Brochure-for-Winter-Weekend-2018.pdf
Inspired by Japan: Europe’s response to Kakiemon porcelain
English Ceramic Circle Study Day : Influences and Inspirations – 400 Years of Japanese Porcelain
26 November 2016
School of Oriental and African Studies in London
Europe’s response to Kakiemon
Northern Ceramic Summer School
9-11 August 2016
The mysterious world of redwares
The 13th Northern Ceramic Winter weekend Seminar ‘Hot & Sweet, 400 years of tea, coffee and chocolate drinking’
29-31 January 2016
www.northernceramicsociety.org/homepage/events/winter-weekend-seminar2/
The investigation of a mysterious early English teabowl
The London Ceramic Circle at Morley College
27 November 2015
The travels of an arcanist, Joseph Jacob Ringler
Conference on the 300th anniversary of the Weiner Porzellamanufaktur
15-16 October 2015
Museum Fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
Symposium 300 Jahre Wiener Porzellanmanufaktur
The investigation of a mysterious teabowl
The English Ceramics Study Day, ‘Eat, Drink & Be Merry!’
Art Antiques London
16 June 2015
Meissen porcelain; connoisseurship and the process of collecting
The Legion of Honor Museum San Francisco
Meissen study day
16 May 2015
This talk will look at aspects of the process of collecting and attempt to define its purpose and value in particular regard to the early years of Meissen porcelain as represented in the Malcolm Gutter Collection.
Ceramic sculpture of the world; from its pre-classical origins to its princely patrons of the 18th century
English Speaking Union, Dartmouth House, 37 Charles Street, London W1J 5ED
27 November 2014
Continental figure sculpture
Oxford Ceramics Group
Headley Theatre, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
30 November 2013
The Rococo porcelain of Europe and its influence on British ceramics
The English Ceramics Seminar, ‘Scrolls of Fantasy, The Rococo and Ceramics in England c1735 – c1775’
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
9-10 November 2013
Villeroy porcelain
French Porcelain Society Study Day at Art Antiques London, Kensington Gardens
14 June 2013
Oriental influences on Italian and French ceramics
Morley College, 61 Westminster Bridge Rd, London SE1 7HT
18 January 2013
Ornamental & remarkable ceramic wares
The 43rd Annual Seminar of the Morley College Ceramic Circle on the weekend of 27th/28th October 2012.
The speakers are: John Sandon (MCCC President), Dr Geoffrey Godden, Anton Gabszewicz, Errol Manners, Maurice Hillis, Robin Emmerson, Alan Caiger-Smith, Jacqui Pearce, Hans Van Lemmen and Charles Dawson.
Morley College, London SE1 7HT
27-28 October 2012
‘Enter the dragon’, European porcelain and the Orient
Oxford Ceramics Group Study Day
Headley Theatre, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
6 October 2012
The English decoration of Oriental porcelain
San Francisco Ceramic Circle Seminar, ‘Stirring the Pots: 25 Years of Change in the Understanding of English Porcelain’
California Palace of the Legion of Honor
4-6 May 2012
Featured Speakers:
Anton Gabszewicz, Independent Ceramic Consultant and Historian
Maurice Hillis, Independent Ceramic Researcher and Chairman of
the Northern Ceramic Society, England
J.V.G. Mallet, former Keeper of the Department of Ceramics, Victoria and Albert
Museum and Past President of the English Ceramic Circle
Errol Manners, Dealer in 18th Century Ceramics and Chairman of
the French Porcelain Society
The earliest chinoiseries at Vincennes and the attribution of a figure
French Porcelain Society symposium in honour of Dame Rosalind Savill
Wallace Collection, London
13-14 April 2012