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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
11:45 am – 12:30 pm Gifts Worthy of the Shogun: Nabeshima Porcelain in the Macdonald Collection Daniel Chen, Adjunct Curator, Gardiner Museum, Toronto
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
3:45 – 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
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