A Passion for Porcelain: A Symposium in Honour of Meredith Chilton
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A Passion for Porcelain: A Symposium in Honour of Meredith Chilton
September 21, 2018 @ 9:00 am - September 22, 2018 @ 5:00 pm
Join us for an international symposium celebrating the career and scholarship of Meredith Chilton, former Chief Curator at the Gardiner Museum.
Friday September 21, 9 am – 7 pm
Saturday September 22: 9:30 am – 5 pm
From ice cream to elephants, this two-day event will feature a broad range of talks by leading scholars on porcelain from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.
Registration includes two days of lectures, special collection tours (registration on site), refreshments throughout the day (lunch is not provided), and a reception on September 21.
Conference Program
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Friday, September 21
9:00 – 9:45 am
Registration and light breakfast
9:45 – 10:00 am
Welcome Remarks
James Appleyard, Chair of the Board of Trustees, Gardiner Museum
10:00 – 10:45 am
Flights of Imagination: Claudius Innocentius du Paquier and the Tastes of his Patrons
Dr. Claudia Lehner-Jobst, Independent Art Historian and Curator, Vienna
10:45 – 11:30 am
Porcelaine à la mode: The Eighteenth-Century Collections of the Baden Princesses
Sebastian Kuhn, Bonhams, London
11:30 – 11:45 am
Tea and coffee break
11:45 am – 12:30 pm
Always Up to Date: Porcelain at the Munich Court
Dr. Katharina Hantschmann, Senior Curator for Ceramics, Bayerisches National Museum, Munich
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Break and collection tours (registration on site)
2:00 – 2:45 pm
Precious Beggars: Ivory and Porcelain Sculpture at the Dresden Court
Dr. Vanessa Sigalas, Independent Scholar, Hartford
2:45 – 3:30 pm
Frozen Treats: The Development of the Ice-Cream Cooler
Ivan Day, Food Historian, Museums and Country House Consultant, Cumbria
3:30 – 3:45 pm
Tea and coffee break
3:45 – 4:30 pm
The Elephant in the Boudoir: Modelling the Exotic in Eighteenth-Century France
Dr. Karine Tsoumis, Curator, Gardiner Museum
5:00 – 7:00 pm
Reception
Saturday, September 22
9:30 – 10:00 am
Light breakfast
10:00 – 10:45 am
A Most Formidable Assembly: The Katz Collection of English Porcelain at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Thomas Michie, Russell B. and Andrée Beauchamp Stearns Senior Curator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
10:45 – 11:30 am
A Refined Taste: Porcelain Collecting in Canada
Dr. Peter Kaellgren, Curator Emeritus, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
11:30 – 11:45 am
Tea and coffee break
11:45 am – 12:30 pm
Gifts Worthy of the Shogun: Nabeshima Porcelain in the Macdonald Collection
Daniel Chen, Adjunct Curator, Gardiner Museum, Toronto
12:30 – 2:00 pm
Break and collection tours (registration on site)
2:00 – 2:45 pm
Honoring the Past: Sèvres and Bernard Palissy
Jeffrey Munger, Former Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2:45 – 3:30 pm
Taxile Doat: From Sèvres to Saint Louis and Back
Linda Roth, Senior Curator and Charles C. and Eleanor Lamont Cunningham Curator of European Decorative Arts, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
3:30 – 3:45 pm
Tea and coffee break
3:45 – 4:30 pm
The Ingenuity of Sèvres: Porcelain Made for Luxury Objects and Interior Furnishings
Dame Rosalind Savill DBE, FBA, FSA, Former Director of the Wallace Collection, London
4:30 – 5:00 pm
Closing remarks by Meredith Chilton
Header image: Wall Vase (Detail), Claudius Innocentius du Paquier Factory, Austria, Vienna, Vienna, c.1730, Gift of George and Helen Gardiner, G83.1.1220.1-2
