Upcoming Events and Items of Interest
Autumn Meeting 2004
'It Is All In The Finish' 16 October 04 at The Wallace Collection, London
Further information will be posted on this website and sent to members, as it becomes available.
Conference Organiser: Ros Hodges; e-mail: [email protected]
Spring Meeting 2005
Ironbridge Gorge Museum
Further information will be posted on this website and sent to members, as it becomes available.
Conference Organiser: Ros Hodges; e-mail: [email protected]
If you are interested in joining the UKIC CGCG
please contact the membership secretary: Nereide Gilhead
e-mail: [email protected]
Nigel Williams Award. Entries welcome. Full information
on the award and entry forms can be obtained from:
Sarah Peek. e-mail: [email protected]
UKIC
Professional Accreditation and the Conservation Register:
Promotional tours 2003/04
Caroline Saye, Register Development Officer, UKIC. Telephone 02077218246
www.pacr.org.uk for further information.
Museum and Gallery
Apsley House.
No. 1, London W1J 7NT (Hyde Park Corner)
Tel. +44 (0) 207 499 5676
Website: apsleyhouse.org.uk
Highlights of the collection "The Sevres 'Egyptian'
centrepiece and dessert service, a divorce present from Napoleon to Josephine"
and " Magnificent porcelain services from the major factories in Europe".
"New - Special interest Tours" 'Preserving a
Palace, Conservation and Restoration at Apsley House'. An insight into
the decisions taken over the last 50 years to protect this magnificent house
and collection.
Ashmolean
Beaumont Street, Oxford
Tel: 01865 2788015
Website: ashmol.ox.ac.uk
Exhibitions:
The new Sackler Gallery of Egyptian Antiquities opens 19 September 03
Chinese Tea Brick, Octobers object for the month.
Study day:
Lecture:
On line resources:
Potweb-European ceramics
Islamic-Islamic ceramics
Fitzwilliam Museum.
Trumpington Street Cambridge CB2 1RB
Tel.01223 332900
Website. fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
"In order to reinstall and redisplay the collections, the Museum will be closed from until after Easter 2004
The Oriental Museum,
University Museums, Durham City.
Tel: 0191 3747911
Website dur.ac.uk/oriental.museum/
A new Wedgwood Museum.
At Durham, at the Old Fulling Mill, the Museum of Archaeology at Durham. The
Old Fulling Mill, like The Oriental Museum, both come under the aegis of Durham
University.
Lecture:
Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
Bethesda Street, Hanly, Stock on Trent
Tel 01782 232517
Website [email protected]
Exhibitions:
Coming soon: Ceramic Culture Innovation, all kinds of art and craft...
Lecture:
On line resources:
The 20th Century Collection of Staffordshire Ceramics.
The Henry Bergen Collection-Studio Pottery.
The Wood Collection 18th & 19th Century pottery.
Victoria & Albert Museum
Cromwell Road, South Kensington, London. SW7 2RL
Tel 0207942 2000
Website. vam.ac.uk
Study day:
Lecture:
Wallace Collection
Study day:
Lecture:
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Study day: 22 May 04 Pottery demonstarion with John Williams (Family activity)
Lecture:
Until 6 June 04 - Surreal Crockery by Carol McNicoll
The Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool
Conference: 8 - 9 July 04 - 'Conservation 2004', Working with the Project Culture. All enquires to Juliet Hutchings ICE Conferences, Institution of Civil Engineers, I Great George Street, London SW1P 3AA, UK. (+44 (0) 207 665 2318). Email [email protected]
Lecture:
Pervival David Foundation of Chinese Art
Exhibition:
Until Dec 04 - Ceramics of the Yuan Dynasty.
16 June - Dec 04 - Blue and White for China, porcelain treasures of the Percival David Foundation.
Note: The gallery is closed on bank holidays
Lecture:
12 May 04, 6pm, £3 per head - Collecting Chinese Cereamics: from Aestheticism to Formalism by Judith Green, Fellow Kings College, Cambridge.
20 July 04, 6pm - The Influence of Buddhism on Chinese Ceramics by Anne Haworth.