San Francisco Ceramic Circle

Illustrated Lecture

"Influences on the Forms and Decoration of Eighteenth-century English Porcelain"

by

Betty Hollett

Docent, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and member of the San Francisco Ceramic Circle

10.00 AM Sunday, 21st January 2007

Florence Gould Theater, Palace of the Legion of Honor

Lincoln Park, San Francisco

About the Lecture: In the eighteenth century  English ceramics borrowed from many sources and cultures for inspiration for the shapes and decoration of table wares.  This talk will explore some of these including, Oriental sources, forms and depictions from nature, silver shapes, printed sources  and ceramics produced by other European manufactories.

About our speaker :  Betty Hollett has been a docent for the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco for 29 years, giving tours for visitors of the collections of European and American Decorative Arts and of Ancient Art.  Among her other duties she has trained and given lectures to other docents in these fields.   Betty has also worked at the Palace of the Legion of Honor as a volunteer for five years under the Curator of European Decorative Arts and for five years under the Curator of Ancient Art.  Betty has a special interest in ceramics and served on the Board of the San Francisco Ceramic Circle for eight years and was on the Board of the American Decorative Arts Forum of Northern California for four years.

Next meeting: Sunday, 18th February 2007. "Ming Porcelain and the Ceramics of the Ottoman Empire" Professor Walter B. Denny, Professor of Art History, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.