San Francisco Ceramic Circle

Illustrated Lecture

"Made in China: Export Porcelain from the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection"

by

Ron Fuchs II
Curator,Reeves Center, Washington & Lee University
Lexington Virginia

10.00 AM Sunday, 13th April 2008

Florence Gould Theater, Palace of the Legion of Honor

Lincoln Park, San Francisco

Enter by the main entrance. Doors open from 9.30 AM

SFCC lectures are free with Museum paid or FAMSF membership entry

About our speaker:

Ron Fuchs is curator of the Reeves Collection at Washington and Lee University. He is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. He has worked at Independence National Historical Park, the New York Historical Society, and, most recently before assuming his current position, asÝAssociate Curator of Ceramics for the Leo and Doris Hodroff Collection at Winterthur Museum.

About the talk:

This talk will provide an overview of one of the finest collections of Chinese export porcelain currently in existence. The collection, which contains pieces made as early as 1550 and as late as 1850, covers the full history of Chinese export porcelain and of the China Trade from its inception in the early sixteenth century through the nineteenth century. The collection was built by Leo and Doris Hodroff of Minneapolis over the last forty years. They have generously shared part of their collection with the Winterthur Museum, which mounted a traveling exhibit and published a catalog on the collection.

Next meeting: Sunday, 11th May 2008. Members only tour of a collection of Chinese Ceramics