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Luncheons often follow lectures; please use home page to send for more information.







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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


German
Figural Standing Salt, 1740-1760
Stoneware with salt glaze
Walter H. Kimball Fund 1996.17

 

Collection of 19th Century French Limoges decorative hand painted porcelain:  jardinieres, vases, pu

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.) 



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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 D

 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. 1679-9


  

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

Meissen Porcelain Manufactory, ca. 1740

Chocolate Set

Rijksmuseum, Netherlands

Courtney M. Leonard
Shinnecock, b. 1980, (RISD MFA 2008, Ceramics)
BREACH: Logbook21 | NEBULOUS - AC

Thursday, April 30, 20223 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


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