San Francisco Ceramic Circle
September 16th, 1999 Meeting
"Exotic Scenes on English Blue and White Transfer
Ware and their Print Sources"
Michael Sack
Collector and SFCC Member
The September meeting of the San Francisco Ceramic Circle
will be held on Thursday, 16th September in the Florence Gould
Theater at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park,
San Francisco. Entrance is from the West terrace from 7.30pm.
The lecture will start at 8.00pm.
Our speaker will be Michael Sack, a collector and SFCC Treasurer.
His lecture is entitled "Exotic Scenes on English Blue and
White Tranfer Ware and their Print Sources".
The mini-exhibit will be of British blue and white tranfer
ware. Set up is at 7.30pm
About the lecture:
Around the end of the 18th century English publishers produced
several books of prints made by artists who had travelled to exotic
locales such as China, India and the Middle East. Many of these
prints were copied onto blue and white tranfer-printed pottery.
We will look at some of the ceramic results of these plagiaristic
endeavors together with their "source prints" and also
hear about the fun of collecting both.
About our speaker:
Michael Sack, a certified public accountant and long-time
treasurer of the San Francisco Ceramic Circle, has collected 19th
century English ceramics since 1981, but his interest in the source
prints related to blue and white transferware is only five years
old. He is a member of Friends of Blue, an English organization
of transferware afficionados, as well as the newly formed American
group, Transferware Collectors Club. Michael has spoken to the
SFCC in the past about The Wark Collection of early Meissen porcelain
at the Cumner Gallery in Jacksonville, Florida. In other volunteer
activities, he is an officer and director of Philharmonia Baroque
Orchestra and the Wallis Foundation.
Future S.F.C.C. programs:
10/18/99 ( Monday) John Sandon "Ceramics from the Collection
of Dr, Bernard Watney"
11/19/99 ( Friday ) Dr. Alan Darr "Innovations during
the Twilight of Florence: Eighteenth-Century Sculpture in Doccia
Porcelain"