Thursday, September 29, 2022 11:30 a.m.
Opening Program and Luncheon
The Hope Club
6 Benevolent Street
Providence, RI 02906
Quimper: An Extraordinary Collection and Passion
Laura Mali-Astrue
Program in Commemoration of Millie Mali, longtime Study Group leader and board member and Sheila Andrews, good friend to Millie and a Quimper admirer
Thursday, October 13, 2022 11:00 a.m.
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Danforth Room
Trading Earth: Ceramics, Commodities, and Commerce
Elizabeth Williams
David and Peggy Rockefeller Curator of Decorative Arts
Image:
German
Figural Standing Salt, 1740-1760
Stoneware with salt glaze
Walter H. Kimball Fund 1996.17
Thursday, November 17, 2022 11:00 a.m.
The Hope Club
6 Benevolent Street
Providence, RI 02906
The Art of Limoges
Debbie DuBay
Author. Collector and Dealer
Debby DuBay loves antiques and their history, specifically hard-paste porcelains and the beauty these pieces have maintained for centuries. She is knowledgeable in European porcelain and is considered an expert in French hard-paste porcelain, specifically Limoges.
The author of several books and the expert consulted for many others, DuBay collected hand-painted pieces of European porcelain in her extensive travels with the United States Air Force. She established Limoges Antiques Shop in Andover, MA and Rutland, VT.
DuBay has been featured in Victoria Magazine, Tea A Magazine, the Antique Journal, Antique Digest, newspapers, tv and radio shows across the US while doing book signings, lectures, and appraisals at antique shops, historical societies, the International Porcelain Collector’s Club, the Havilland Collector’s Club, and more.
Buffet Luncheon after talk
Please make reservations for the luncheon by sending your check for $35.00
payable to the Pottery and Porcelain Club by November 9, 2022, to:
Ms. Marguerite Schnepel
109 Transit Street
Providence, RI 02906
Friday, December 2, 2022
6:00 p.m. Reception
6:45 p.m. Dinner
8:00 p.m. Lecture
Total Indulgence: The Legacy of Chocolate through Pottery in Mexico and Spain
The Hope Club
6 Benevolent Street
Providence, RI 02906
Margaret Connors McQuade
Deputy Director and Curator of Decorative Arts
The Hispanic Society Museum and Library
New York, NY
Margaret Conners McQuade is the Deputy Director and Head of Collections at the Hispanic Society Museum and Library, where she has worked since 1993. She has lectured in the United States, Mexico, and Spain on the decorative arts of Spain and Latin America as well as on the Hispanic Society. In 2005, she received her PhD in art history from the Graduate Center at the City University of New York.
Margaret also curated the exhibitions Talavera Poblana: Four Centuries of a Mexican Ceramic Tradition (Americas Society, 1999) and Alcora en New York: La Colección de Cerámica de Alcora (Museo de Bellas Artes de Castellón de la Plana, Museo de Bellas Artes, Valencia, 2005). She has also contributed to a number of exhibition catalogues including Visions of the Hispanic World: Treasures from the Hispanic Society of America.
Image:
Chocolate jar with iron lid (Chocolatero)
Jar with handles (Talavera Poblana) ca. 1700
Tin-glazed earthenware with iron lid
Diameter at top 13 x H 34 cm (Diameter at top 5 1/8 x H 13 3/8 in.)
Thursday, February 23, 2023 The Hope Club
From the Land of the Rising Sun: A Brief Introduction to Japanese Ceramics
From the Land of the Rising Sun: A Brief Introduction to Japanese Ceramics
From the Land of the Rising Sun: A Brief Introduction to Japanese Ceramics
Nonomura Ninsei (Japanese; c. 1640s–1690s)
Tea Leaf Storage Jar with Moon, Cloud, and Plum Blossom Décor
Japanese; Edo period, c. mid- to late 17th century
Tokyo National Museum
From the Land of the Rising Sun: A Brief Introduction to Japanese Ceramics
From the Land of the Rising Sun: A Brief Introduction to Japanese Ceramics
Circular Dish with Decoration of a Blossoming Cherry Tree and a Wall
Japanese; Edo period, c. 1679-90
Nabeshima ware: porcelain with decoration painted in underglaze
cobalt blue, with clear and celadon glazes, and with
overglaze enamel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Square Sweetmeat Dish with a Bail Handle for Use in Tea Ceremony
Japanese; Momoyama period, late 16th century
Mino ware, Oribe type; light gray stoneware with decoration painted in underglaze iron-brown on an underglaze white slip ground glaze and with a partial overlay of copper-green glaze
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, The Asia Society, New York
Robert D. Mowry
Retired Alan J. Dworsky Curator of Chinese Art
Arthur M. Sackler Museum
Harvard University
Thursday, March 23, 2023 11:00 a.m.
A Fragile Past: Meissen Porcelain from the Oppenheimer Family
Via Zoom
Femke Diercks
Depaertment Head, Decorative Arts
Rijksmuseum, Netherlands
Memorial Lecture in memory of Vera Metcalf, long time member and generous supporter
Photo:
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, ca. 1740
Chocoalte Set
Rijksmuseum, Netherlands
Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, ca. 1740
Chocolate Set
Rijksmuseum, Netherlands
Thursday, April 20, 2023 11:00 a.m.
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design
Contemporary Ceramics in the RISD Collection: A Dialogue between Elizabeth Williams, David and Peggy Rockefeller Curator of Decorative Arts, RISD and Leslie Ferrin, Ferrin Contemporary Gallery, North Adams, MA
Danforth Room
Image:
Courtney M. Leonard
Shinnecock, b. 1980, (RISD MFA 2008, Ceramics)
BREACH: Logbook21 | NEBULOUS - ACCOUNT STUDY #1, 2021
Earthenware with glaze and wood pallet
32.5 x 37.5 x 38”
Mary Ann Lippitt Acquisition Fund 2021.96
Thursday, May 18, 2023 11:00 a.m.
Annual Meeting
Providence Art Club
11 Thomas Street
Providence, RI 0293
The Art and Surprise of Raku Ceramics
Elena Obelenus
Ceramic Artist, Printmaker