San Francisco Ceramic Circle

Sunday, 13th April 2003 Meeting

"Porcelain Stories: from China to Europe"

a slide lecture by

JULIE EMERSON

Ruth J.Nutt Curator of Decorative Arts, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle , Washington

The April meeting of the San Francisco Ceramic Circle will be held on Sunday, 13th April in the Florence Gould Theater at the Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, San Francisco. Entrance is from the main entrance. The lecture will start at 10.00 AM.

About the Lecture: In 1996 with Mimi Gardner Gates she taught a course on the history of porcelain at the University of Washington that led to their exhibition in 2000 at the Seattle Art Museum and companion book Porcelain Stories : from China to Europe featuring over 200 objects from the Asian and European collections and illustrating the trade and cross cultural influences of ceramics between the east and West. This talk will cover the material and objects on which this exhibition was based.

About the lecturer: Julie Emerson is Ruth J. Nutt Curator of Decorative Arts at the Seattle Art Museum. She joined the museum staff as an assistant registrar in 1977 and was promoted to a curatorial position in 1981. In this position she established the Decorative Arts Department with an emphasis on building the European and American decorative arts collections for the Seattle Art Museum. During her tenure, important local collections, especially in the field of European porcelain and Russian art, have come to the Museum

Porcelain Stories on view in 2000 was the most ambitious decorative arts exhibition and book organized by the museum and her current exhibition An American Sampler comprised of early American silver, furniture needlework and Chinese export porcelain for the American market from the Ruth J. Nutt collection is on view at the Seattle Art Museum

Next meeting: Thursday, 15th May 2003. Sebastian Kuhn, director, European Ceramics and Glass department, Sotheby's, London will present a talk entitled "Knowledge is power: the Rudolf Just (the real Utz) Collection"