FPS LIVING ROOM LECTURES

The French Porcelain Society continues its series of weekly online lectures with Andreina D’Agliano, who will explore the outstanding collection of eighteenth-century porcelain of the Dukes of Parma. We hope you can join us!

Living Room Lecture: THE PORCELAIN COLLECTION OF THE DUKES OF PARMA – Andreina D’Agliano

Time: Saturday, 25 July 2020, 18:00PM London, UK (BST) PLEASE NOTE NEW TIME

Members will receive an email invitation with instructions on how to join the online lecture. If you want to join, please contact us for more details on FPSenquiries@gmail.com.

THE PORCELAIN COLLECTION OF THE DUKES OF PARMA

Andreina D’Agliano

The porcelain collection of Louis-Philippe and Louise Elisabeth of Bourbon-Parma, daughter of Louis XV, is one of the most interesting princely collections of the XVIII century. In addition to Meissen and outstanding Sèvres pieces, it also included pieces from other factories such as Chantilly, Berlin, and the Italian Ginori.

Today, the original collection is scattered among the ex-Italian royal residences, some still in the Galleria Nazionle of Parma, but mostly divided between the Palazzo Pitti in Florence and the Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome, where they were sent from the Parmesan Court residences after the Italian Unification in 1861.

This lecture will focus on some of the Meissen and Vincennes-Sèvres porcelain pieces of the Bourbon-Parma collection, and will link them with some documents kept at the Parma Archives as well as with other relevant research.

Image: Oyster pyramid stand, 1759, Sèvres manufacture. Palazzo Pitti, Museo delle Porcellane, Florence