San Francisco Ceramic Circle
November 13th, 2005 Meeting
For children's edification or
ladies amusement: Early miniature Asian export and European ceramics
in context
Richard Pardue
Independent Scholar
The Sunday, November 13th meeting of the San Francisco Ceramic
Circle will be held in the Florence Gould Theater at the Palace
of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park, San Francisco. Enter by
the main entrance from 9.30am. The lecture will start at 10.00am.
About the lecture:
A distinguishable body of small-scale ceramics, representing
most of the ceramic forms and types produced domestically as well
as those imported from Asia between c. 1650 and 1825, are to be
found in many US and British public and private collections.
Surpisingly, to date there has been no serious attempt to place
these diminutive wares within the social and cultural arena in
which they were produced. In an attempt to fill this lacuna
of ceramic scholarship, Mr. Pardue has conducted a three-year
study of contemporary letters, diaries, memoirs, and the full
range of surviving commercial and visual evidence which, he will
demonstrate, places small-scale ceramics within the realm of children.
About our speaker:
Richard Pardue is a graduate of Wake Forest University and
has attended a variety of specialized courses in the Decorative
Arts including the Attingham Summer School of English National
Trust, Two Seminars conducted by the Friends of French Heritage
(formerly VMF) and the MESDA Summer Institute.
He served Two Terms on Board of American Cermic Circle and
was 1996 Program Chair which included planning the ACC Symposium
held at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco in that year.
He is currently advisor to the Old Salem Toy Museum and responsible
for collection of small-scale ceramics which form basis of his
research and this lecture.
Future S.F.C.C. programs: