San Francisco Ceramic Circle Illustrated Lecture
New attributions – Fidelle Duvivier in the Netherlands
Charlotte Jacob-Hanson, Independent Ceramic Researcher and
Founder of the Frankfurt Ceramic Study Group, Germany
About the talk: Born in Tournai, this widely-travelled decorator is best known for the landscape vignettes and figural scenes he painted mainly on New Hall porcelain in the late 1780s. This lecture looks at newly discovered and attributed piecesdating to circa 1782-84, when Duvivier was working in the Netherlands for Joannes de Mol at Loosdrecht andthe Lyncker family of The Hague . The historical background of the 18th-century porcelain manufactory at Loosdrechtas well as the controversial decorating establishment in The Hague will be discussed – with newer details not mentioned in standard porcelain literature. The Loosdrecht manufactory was excavated 2000-2005 and the field reports published in 2007. The remarkable examples of Fidelle Duvivier’s painted decoration, found mainly in Dutch private and public collections, will be compared to his later work in Staffordshire.
About the speaker: Charlotte Jacob-Hanson was born in Evanston , Illinois , and studied at the University of Arizona in Tucson , where she took her B.A. in Oriental Studies and English Literature in 1970. Later she studied in Marburg , Germany (1970-71), returning to the U of A for her M.A. (T.E.S.O.L.) degree (1973). She has lived most of her adult life in Germany , where she taught English for many years. Since 1991 she and her German husband have lived near Frankfurt , where she founded a local ceramics study group in 1992.
Since 1996 she has been involved in ceramic research on the porcelain decorators, Louis Victor Gerverot and Fidelle Duvivier, has lectured and written articles on these and other ceramic topics. Her research has been published in Ars Ceramica, The Magazine ANTIQUES, the American Ceramic Circle Journal, the ECC Transactions,the Dutch journal Vormen uit Vuur, as well as most recently in the German journal KERAMOS. In 2007 two articles on her Duvivier research appeared in the ECC Transactions and in the Dutch journal for glass and ceramics, Vormen uit Vuur. Her lecture on Fidelle Duvivier’s work in the Netherlands , given in June of 2007 at the International Ceramics Fair in London , was published in summarized form in the 2008 handbook.
In 2006 she also helped translate the field reports on the excavations of the Dutch Loosdrecht porcelain manufactory for a publication that appeared the following spring. Currently she is researching insect decoration on early Loosdrecht porcelain. Further articles on Fidelle Duvivier and Louis Victor Gerverot are planned.
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