2025 ANNUAL SEMINAR
WILLIAMSBURG, VA
APRIL 24 — 26, 2025
Join us in Williamsburg, Virginia! Our full lecture program will include renowned experts Catrin Jones, Chief Curator at the V&A Wedgwood Collection, Robert Hunter, former editor of Ceramics in America, and Angelika Kuettner, Curator of Ceramics and Glass at Colonial Williamsburg. In addition to seeing the expansive ceramic collections at Colonial Williamsburg, we'll have the opportunity for behind-the-scenes tours and a visit to a local private collection.
THE MICKEY HIGHTOWER COLLECTION OF WEDGWOOD
The Mickey Hightower collection of Wedgwood is to be offered at Bonhams Skinner Boston in March 2025. Up for auction will be a number of hand-painted pieces by Emile Lessore, a variety of Marsden wares, a wide assortment of Ivory Vellum, second-period bone china ornamental wares, works by artists including Keith Murray, Erling Olsen, Norman Wilson, Michael Dillon, Elwyn James, and Anita Synovec, and more!
WILLIAM MOORCROFT, POTTER
INDIVIDUALITY BY DESIGN
William Moorcroft, Potter: Individuality by Design is a pioneering study by Jonathan Mallinson, Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford. It follows the career of William Moorcroft through a wealth of private papers, letters and diaries, business correspondence and published reviews in newspapers, trade magazines and art journals. Richly illustrated with examples of his pottery, it explores what lay behind the unique impact of work sought by museums and treasured in homes the world over.
WEDGWOOD BRINGS DARWIN'S ADVENTURES TO FINE BONE CHINA
Wedgwood has introduced a new teaware collection that beautifully captures famed naturalist Charles Darwin’s journey to far-flung climes on the HMS Beagle. The collection, Darwin Voyage of the Beagle, has been produced with Wedgwood working closely with Cambridge University Library, original drawings from Darwin’s trip (created by the ship’s artist Conrad Martens and Darwin himself) have been carefully styled on to teacups and saucers, and coupe plates by the Wedgwood design team. The use of original drawings from the journey fills this collection with an authentic story full of history.
