San Francisco Ceramic Circle
May 18th, 2006 Meeting
The Evolution of Chinoiserie on English Teawares of
the
Early 19th Century: Intelligent Design or Just Plain
Crazy?
Michael Sack
Collector, Member of the San Francisco Ceramic Circle
The Thursday, May 18th 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 West Terrace entrance from 7.30pm. The lecture will start
at 8.00pm.
About the lecture:
In the years between roughly 1815 and 1835 English potters
produced many sets of teawares with chinoiserie patterns for the
"low end" of the market. While these wares were sometimes
unsophisticated and hastily painted, they nevertheless demonstrated
an interpretation of chinoiserie that was unique. We will look
at many of these charming, even nutty, patterns against a background
of more orthodox chinoiserie designs.
About our speaker:
In real life, Michael Sack is a certified public accountant
living and practicing in San Francisco. Michael is a native of
Jacksonville, Florida and a graduate a long time ago of Cornell
University. When he wears his collecting hat instead of his green
eyeshade, he focuses on early nineteenth century English ceramics,
primarily ironstone, Hilditch and similar factories, and blue
and white printed transferware together with their source prints.
Currently he is organizing a compendium of Indian scenes on transferware
together with their print sources. His collection of Hilditch
and similar teawares is the subject of tonight's talk.
Future S.F.C.C. programs: