San Francisco Ceramic Circle

Illustrated Lecture

"Porcelain and the Evolution of Dining Customs in 18th-century Europe"

by

Jeffrey Munger

Associate Curator, European Sculpture and Decorative Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY

8.00 PM Thursday, 19th April 2007

Florence Gould Theater, Palace of the Legion of Honor

Lincoln Park, San Francisco

Enter from the West Terrace. Doors open from 7.30 PM

About the talk: Dining customs changed dramatically in Europe in the course of the eighteenth century.  The new styles of dining required new forms of dinner and dessert wares, and these changes coincided with the first significant production of porcelain on European soil.  This lecture will examine the relationship between the development of porcelain and the new modes of dining, and the ways in which each influenced the other.

About our speaker: Jeffrey Munger joined the curatorial staff at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC in 2000 as Associate Curator in the department of European Sculpture and Decorative Art. Prior to joining the Metropolitan Museum he was Associate Curator of European Sculpture and Decorative Art at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts having progressed to that position from his first employment there as an Assistant Curator in 1982.  He holds a BA in Art and Archeology from Princeton, an AM in Fine Art from Harvard and has twice been a guest scholar at the J. Paul Getty Museum.  He has lectured widely and has numerous articles in scholarly publications and is Chairman of the Board of the American Ceramic Circle.

Next meeting: Thursday, 17th May 2007. "Ceramics in the Chipstone Foundation Collection". An illustrated lecture by Robert Hunter, Editor of "Ceramics in America"