Oxford Ceramics Group

Study Day - Named Sculptors and Ceramics
2022-03-26 | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2PH, United Kingdom
Sugar ornaments were used on fashionable dining tables all over Europe at the beginning of the 18th century. With the discovery of porcelain at Meissen in 1710, more permanent figures could be made. Meissen developed this to a fine art with two skilled modellers Johann Jakob Kirchner and Johann Joachim Kandler.
The use of named sculptors in both porcelain and earthenware has continued to the present day and we are fortunate to have three acclaimed speakers to tell the story.
Errol Manners, porcelain expert and dealer, will concentrate on the 18th century.
Paul Atterbury, author and broadcaster, known to many from his appearances on the Antiques Road Show, will talk on named sculptors in 19th century England, including Parian ware and Majolica.
Gaye Blake-Roberts, former, long-standing Curator of the Wedgwood Museum, will talk about the wide range of sculptors working with Wedgwood.
Members are welcome to bring items for interest and / or identification.
Coffee will be served from 10.30am and the first lecture will begin at 11.00am. A sandwich lunch is provided.

Annual General Meeting
2022-02-05 | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2PH, United Kingdom
The Annual General meeting will start at 2pm, and this will be followed by a lecture by Professor Timothy Wilson, the president of the Oxford Ceramics Group.

The Influence of Islam on European Ceramics
2021-11-20 | Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford, OX1 2PH, United Kingdom
The day will explore the important contribution of Islamic countries to the form and decoration of European ceramics.
Oliver Watson, Emeritus Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture, will give the opening introduction.

This fascinating subject will then be explored by three experts in this field.

Federica Gigante, Curator of the Collection from the Islamic World at the History of Science Museum, Oxford, will talk on the 17th century.
Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, Curator of 17th and 18th century Ceramics and Glass at the Victoria and Albert Museum, will talk on the 18th century, and
Fuchsia Hart, who is currently undertaking a DPhil by research at the Khalili Research Institute, Oxford, as well as lecturing and writing, will talk on the 19th and 20th centuries.

Members are welcome to bring items for interest and / or identification.

Coffee will be served from 10.30am and the first lecture will begin at 11.00am. A sandwich lunch is provided.

Ceramic collections in Oxford
2021-10-20 | Private Collection, Oxford

Visit to Museum of Royal Worcester Porcelain and Croome Court
2021-09-23 | Museum of Royal Worcester Porcelain and Croome Court, United Kingdom
