About the San Francisco Ceramic Circle

The San Francisco Ceramic Circle, now in its 41st year, is among the oldest and most respected ceramic collectors organizations in the U.S.A. and is a valuable resource for anyone with an interest in antique ceramics or ceramic art.
The S.F.C.C. is affiliated with the San Francisco Museums of Fine Art and sponsors a series of lectures on various aspects of ceramics. These are usually held in the Florence Gould Theatre at the Palace of the Legion of Honor located in Lincoln Park, San Francisco on Sundays starting at 10.00 am with mini-exhibits 1/2 hour before the talks. Topics range from Oriental pottery, through the great European factories of the 18th century to Modern Studio ceramics. Talks are given by museum curators, collectors, authors and dealers who are authorities in their fields.
For further details and SFCC activities see the SFCC BROCHURE.
Visitors to the museum are welcome to attend the free SFCC lectures.       There are useful links at the bottom of this page

San Francisco Ceramic Circle 2013 Lecture Program

Date	Speaker	Lecture title
Sunday 1/20/2013 9.30-11.30AM	Patricia Knight, SFCC member and Antique Dealer	"Creative Tension, Melding Art Pottery and Commercial Design: the Life and Times of Frederick Hurten Rhead"
Sunday 2/17/2013 9.30-11.30AM	Elizabeth A. Williams, Rhode Island School of Design	"Daily Pleasures: French Ceramics from the MaryLou Boone Collection"
Sunday 3/17/2013 9.30-11.30AM	Hyonjeong Kim Han Associate Curator of Korean Art, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco	First under Heaven: Korean Celadon in the Goryeo Dynasty
Sunday 4/21/2013 9.30 - 11.30AM	San Francisco Ceramic Circle Collectors	"Welcome to the Club: Collecting Ceramics for Beginners"
Sunday 5/12/2013 9.30 - 11.30AM	Jeffrey Ruda, SFCC member, collector and Renaissance Art Historian, U.C. Davis, California	"Christopher Dresser:  Industry and Modernism in Ceramics"
Saturday 6/29/2013	To be announced	Summer Social. SFCC MEMBERS ( and their guests ) EVENT.
Thursday 7/18/2013	SFCC Members "Pot Night"	SFCC MEMBERS ( and their guests ) ONLY EVENT. Display and discussion of members' acquisitions
Sunday 8/11/2013 9.30-11.30AM	David Hoexter, Past President, the Transferware Collectors Club & SFCC member	"The American Advertising Calendar Plate: a Window on America’s Rural Past"
Sunday 9/15/2013 9.30-11.30AM	Janice Paull, International Specialist dealer for English Ironstone China	"English Ironstone China 1790 - 1850 - Mason's Patent Ironstone China"
Sunday 10/13/2013 9.30-11.30AM	Ellen Denker	"Flowers and Faces: Painting on Lennox China"
10/24/2013 through 10/27/2013	The San Francisco Fall Antiques Show, Festival Pavillion, Fort Mason,San Francisco
Sunday 11/17/2013 9.30-11.30AM	Jan Daniël van Dam, specialist consultant for European Ceramics (formerly Senior Curator Ceramics and Glass, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam )	"Dutch money, German know-how, and French taste: 60 years of Dutch porcelain (1759-1814)"
2014 Program	To be announced later