Masterpiece Fair
Friday, 28 June 2019
09.30-10.00:Registration
10.00-10.10:
Welcome: Oliver Fairclough, FSA, Chairman of the French Porcelain Society
Introduction: Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, V&A/RCA and University of Leeds
10.10-11.30:
Ceramic Sculpture: Ornament and Figuration in the Chapels by Luca Della Robbia at Impruneta
Federica Carta, PhD Candidate, Université de Picardie Jules Verne and at the Università degli Studi di Perugia
La Source ou la Naïade en Porcelaine de Vincennes-Sèvres du Musée du Louvre, New Research
Antoine D’Albis, Former Chief Scientist at the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Sculpting le Goût Pittoresque: Clodion’s Bacchic Subjects
Elizabeth Saari Browne, PhD Candidate, MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Porcelain and Sculptural Aesthetics – Untangling a Troubled Relationship
Matthew Martin, Lecturer in Art History and Curatorship, University of Melbourne. Former Curator of International Decorative Arts at the National Gallery of Victoria, 2006-2018
11.30-12.00: Tea & Coffee
12.00-13.30:
Sculpture and personal creativity at Sèvres during the Second Empire 1850-1870
Tamara Préaud, Former Archivist of the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Casting Replication: Porcelain and Sculpture Networks in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Alicia Caticha, PhD Candidate, University of Virginia
Gio Ponti and Ceramic Sculpture for Richard-Ginori: An Art Director’s Approach
Oliva Rucellai, Art Historian and Former Curator of the Museo Richard-Ginori della Manifattura di Doccia in Sesto Fiorentino, 2002-2014
Accident or Design? Ceramic Sculpture in San Francisco’s Legion of Honor
Martin Chapman, Curator in Charge, European Art, interim; Curator in Charge, European Decorative Arts and Sculpture, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco
Thank you: Dame Rosalind Savill, DBE, FBA, FSA, President of the French Porcelain Society, Former Director of the Wallace Collection
13.30-15.00: Lunch (not provided)
15.00-17.00: Private Group Tours to Ceramics and Sculpture stalls at the Masterpiece Fair
17.00-18.00: Champagne Reception on the terrace
