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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.
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Speaker: Pat Halfpenny, Curator Emerita, Ceramics & Glass, Winterthur Museum
Description: 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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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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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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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’.
Rich with content for ceramic collectors, researchers, authors, curators, and historic archaeologists, the sites are sure to deliver value for their visitors. The exhibition’s curators continue to enhance them and, now, with site application upgrades, including a new magnification feature and upgraded content management capabilities, the TCC and its collaborators are pleased to relaunch these exhibits, all free to a worldwide audience.
Branded Patriotic America, debuted in 2014 in collaboration with Historic New England, and the Winterthur Museum
Launched in 2015 in partnership with the Northern Ceramic Society.
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