AGM, Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue Memorial Lecture and Dinner

**Bookings Closed**

The French Porcelain Society is delighted to host the Annual General Meeting (AGM), Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue Memorial Lecture and Dinner on Friday, 23 June 2023 at the The National Liberal Club (1 Whitehall Pl, London SW1A 2HE).

This year, Dr Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo will deliver the Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue Memorial Lecture drawing upon her ground-breaking research on the sculptor Johann Joachim Kaendler, the most important modeller of the Meissen porcelain manufactory, who created or supervised the production of almost one thousand models between 1731 and 1775. The first volume of Dr Andres-Acevedo’s publication, Die autonomen figürlichen Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner Werkstatt zwischen 1731 und 1748, will be published this summer. See below for details about Dr Andres-Acevedo’s lecture.

Dinner will be in honour of our President, Dame Rosalind Savill, who will step down from her duties after 24 years in the role. She will be succeeded as President of the Society by Tamara Préaud. We would like to thank Rosalind Savill for her dedication and stewardship with a dinner surrounded by friends and colleagues.

The programme for this special evening is as follows:

17:30 – 17:45  – Arrival of guests to the The National Liberal Club (David Lloyd George Room)

17:45 – 18:15  – Annual General Meeting

18:15 – 19:00 – Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue Memorial Lecture

19:00 – 19:30 – Drinks reception in the Smoking Room

19:30 onwards  – Dinner (David Lloyd George Room)

Please note that booking are now closed. For more information, please email newsletterfps@gmail.com.

The autonomous figural sculptures of Johann Joachim Kaendler and his workshop between 1731 and 1748

Dr Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo

In May 2023, the two-volume publication of Sarah-Katharina Andres-Acevedo’s dissertation entitled “Die autonomen figürlichen Plastiken Johann Joachim Kaendlers und seiner Werkstatt zwischen 1731 und 1748” will be published by arnoldsche Art Publishers in Stuttgart. Volume I gives an overview of the founding history of the manufactory and presents the development of autonomous figural sculpture. The volume concludes with a complete transcription of J.F. Eberlein’s, J.G. Ehder’s and P. Reinicke’s work reports up to the year 1748. Based on the work reports of Kaendler and his first collaborators, a catalogue comprising 998 models was created, which is presented in volume 2. In her lecture, the author will talk about the results of her research work, its systematics, the development process and the problems associated with it.

Image caption: Allegories of Europe, Asia, Africa and America (small series) commissioned by Empress Elizabeth Petrovna (1709–1762). Modeled by Johann Joachim Kaendler and Johann Friedrich Eberlein, Meissen, 1746 and 1747. Private collection.