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
MARCH 9 — 19, 2025
The Mickey Hightower collection of Wedgwood is to be offered at Bonhams Skinner Boston. 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!
WEDGWOOD &
THE SOCIETY OF DILETTANTI
VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, LONDON
THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 2025
The ECC is delighted to confirm that we are running a seminar at the V&A Museum on Thursday 20 March, 2025, devoted to Wedgwood and the Society of Dilettanti. The Society was founded in c1734 for noblemen and scholars that sponsored the study of ancient Greek and Roman art. While the Society is in existence today, the seminar will focus on the eighteenth century.
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.
