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TCC Sponsored Videos

Videos made available here are from two vital resources:
The Transferware Worldwide Lecture Series - free monthly Zoom lectures open to all. Invitations are distributed to the organizations who have expressed interest in participating. These lectures are recorded and made available to current TCC members after the Zoom session. Member login required. A second source are the recorded presentations at TCC Annual Meetings, also available to members with login.

Transferware Worldwide Lecture Series ANNUAL MEETING LECTURES Other Films and Videos

Transferware Worldwide Lecture Series

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A Staffordshire View of Philadelphia

Speaker: Pat Halfpenny, Curator Emerita, Ceramics & Glass, Winterthur Museum

Pat HalfpennyDescription: Pat’s presentation discussed the scenes of Philadelphia found on printed pottery and the Staffordshire manufacturers who produced them. While the focus was on the dark blue prints of the 1820s, there were references to later Romantic Staffordshire with Philadelphia themes, concluding with a brief look at polychrome printed pieces.

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Unraveling the Mysteries of Selling One’s Collection at Auction: Two Perspectives

Lecturers: Nick Routson and Ceramic Specialist Heather Cline in a discussion/presentation moderated by Leslie Bouterie

Description: In this program, guest presenters TCC Member and Transferware Collector Extraordinaire Nick Routson and TCC Secretary, Ceramic Specialist, and Auction House Professional Heather Cline will share the “ins and outs” of the auction process from two points of view: that of the collector-seller and that of the auction house sales team. In 2021, Nick Routson embarked on a monumental downsizing of his stellar and extensive collection of American Historical transferware along with much of his lovingly assembled collection of antique furniture, textiles, ceramics, and glass from his home in Phoenix, Arizona. He selected the prestigious auction house of Jeffrey S. Evans and Associates of Mt. Crawford, Virginia, to handle the multi-session sale. Nick worked closely with their Head of Ceramics Heather Cline on all aspects of the process. In a lively discussion, moderated by Leslie Lambour Bouterie, Nick will share his personal experiences of preparing and placing his treasures in the capable hands of the auction house professionals over 2,000 miles away, and Heather will explain the process of expertly accessioning, promoting, and selling his beautiful antiques. With their insights shared and Q & A opportunities offered, the “mysteries” of the auction process will be revealed.

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The wares that missed the boat: transfer-printed Ceramic Finds from Manchester Dock, Liverpool

Lecturer:  Dr David Barker, archaeological consultant and ceramics specialist

Description: Excavations at Manchester Dock, Liverpool, yielded a large group of early 19th-century ceramics which had clearly been destined for export. They never made it!

Amongst the wide variety of ceramic types were numerous transfer-printed wares, some familiar, but others less so. In this presentation David will discuss these printed wares in the wider context of the assemblage and its deposition, and will consider what this tells us about the export trade in British ceramics at this time.

Our Speaker:  Former City Archaeologist and Keeper of Archaeology for Stoke on Trent Museums, David Barker is a well-known researcher and author on the history of the ceramics industry, its processes and its products.

He has taught on Staffordshire University’s MA in Ceramic History and has lectured widely at all levels in the UK, Europe and North America. His publications include the books William Greatbatch, a Staffordshire Potterand Slipware in the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, as well as numerous journal articles. David is a past President of the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and has received an Award of Merit from the Society for Historical Archaeology.

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The Morse Collection of Historical ‘Old Blue’ Staffordshire at the American Antiquarian Society

In this lecture Professor Anne Anderson describes The Morse Collection of Historical ‘Old Blue’ Staffordshire

From 1993-2007, Professor Anne Anderson was a senior lecturer on the Fine Arts Valuation degree course at Southampton Solent University, where she specialized in the Aesthetic Movement, Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and Modernism Academy, and at Christie’s. Anne published, The Cube Teapot! in 1999, and The Romance of Old Blue: collecting and displaying Old Blue Staffordshire China in the American Home c.1870-1930’, in Interpreting Ceramics, Issue 15, 2013. In addition, Anne has catalogued and written a guide to the ceramics at the Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth, published in 2022.

Anne has also curated four national exhibitions, most recently, Beyond the Brotherhood The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy in 2020. She has received Research Fellowships at the Huntington Library, California, Winterthur Library and Museum, Delaware, and the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, Massachusetts. It was her grant of 2015, which enabled her to research the basis of her lecture today entitled ,‘The Morse Collection of Historical ‘Old Blue’ Staffordshire at the American Antiquarian Society’.

Annual Meeting Lectures

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The Aesthetic Movement Comes to America: Art for Art’s Sake and the House Beautiful Introduced at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition

A reprise of Adrienne Bogg's wonderful presentation exploring of the stylistic elements of Aesthetic transferware in "The Aesthetic Movement Comes to America: Art for Art’s Sake and the House Beautiful Introduced at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition." Adrienne shared this fascinating look at the Aesthetic Movement and its expression on British transferware at our in-person annual meeting in Philadelphia in April. It was very well received, and we've asked her to share it with a wider group of our members at the virtual meeting. 

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Fall Virtual Annual Meeting 2024

We held a virtual member meeting on Sunday, October 27, 2024. It included a visit to the Judie Siddall and David Hoexter Collection link here, a Brief Business Meeting (below), and a reprise of Adrienne Bogg's wonderful presentation exploring of the stylistic elements of Aesthetic transferware in "The Aesthetic Movement Comes to America: Art for Art’s Sake and the House Beautiful Introduced at the 1876 Philadelphia Exposition" link here.

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Visit to the Judie Siddall and David Hoexter Collection.

TCC President Scott Hanson has prepared another of his video collection visits for this year's virtual meeting. He visited Judie Siddall and David Hoexter in their beautiful Palo Alto, CA, home to see and record their large and varied transferware collection. You'll hear them talk about the collection and about their 25 years of dedicated service to the Transferware Collectors Club - which they founded along with Norman Wolfe and David and Linda Arman. You might even get to meet their cats, Bentlee and Markiz!

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2023 Virtual Annual Business Meeting

This recording is of the Annual Business Meeting portion of the 2023 Virtual Annual Meeting held on October 28, 2023. It includes reports on the various activities of the club and information on plans for the April 2024 in-person Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Prior to the Business Meeting, the Virtual Annual Meeting programing featured a video “Visit to the Michael Sack Collection in San Francisco” linked here and the video of recording of “A Trip to Edinburgh: Transfer-Printed Ceramics in the Collection of National Museums Scotland,” a lecture by Claire Blakey, Curator of Modern Decorative Arts, National Museums Scotland, linked here first presented at part of the TCC Transferware Worldwide lecture series.