2010 Events

Saturday 30th January 2.00pm Annual General Meeting
To be held in the Ashmolean’s Headley Lecture theatre and followed by a short illustrated talk by OCG member John Homewood on ‘Transferware, with reference to Wild Rose Nuneham Courtenay’.

Saturday 13th February Henry Sandon lecture
Henry Sandon will lecture on ‘18th century Worcester: Marshalling the Facts’ in the Headley Lecture theatre.  This is a Friends of the Ashmolean event open to members of the OCG.

Thursday 4th March Guided Tour of Ashmolean Ceramics Collections
The extension to the Ashmolean Museum has been heralded a huge success and many believe the new ceramic galleries are one of the high spots.  The committee is very grateful to Timothy Wilson and other curators who have agreed to provide a special guided tour of the ceramic collections exclusively for OCG members. 

Saturday 20th March 2.30pm The Southwark Jug
This is an English Ceramic Circle meeting being held in the Ashmolean to hear Timothy Wilson talk on the Ashmolean Southwark Jug and Italian and Antwerp elements in early English delftware.  Jacqui Pearce will talk on the Southwark excavations.  OCG members are welcome.  

Wednesday 14th April Visit to the Buckinghamshire County Museum’s collection of 20th century studio pottery stored in the Halton Resource Centre
This collection contains work by nearly all the leading potters from the 1950’s to 2002.  Great names in the collection include Bernard Leach, Hans Coper, Lucie Rie, Ruth Duckworth, Katherine Pleydell-Bouverie and Ian Auld.

Wednesday 23rd June and Tuesday 6th July Guided Tour of Upton House ceramics
Upton House (National Trust) has a magnificent collection of English and Continental ceramics as well as outstanding paintings and other works of art.  OCG members will have the rare opportunity of a private tour in the morning before the house opens to the public.  Numbers are limited, hence two days have been booked.

Saturday 9th October Study Day in the Headley Lecture theatre on ‘The Use of Lustre in Ceramics’
Tracing the movement of lustre from the Middle East to Spain and Italy; and then on to Northern Europe.  Speakers will include Timothy Wilson, Paul Atterbury and Alan Caiger-Smith.

Saturday 27th November Study Day in the Headley Lecture theatre on ‘Regency Porcelain’.
The Regency period was one of the richest episodes for English porcelain.  Nick Berthoud will set the scene for the stylistic character of the period and other speakers will explore different factories and groups of wares.