Symposium of the French Porcelain Society: ‘From Saint-Cloud to Bernadaud’
The Wallace Collection, London, 20-21 October 2017
Our ground-breaking symposium revealing new research on French porcelain manufacturers other than the royal factory of Vincennes-Sèvres is now only a month away. Don’t miss this major event introducing many scholars from France new to the Society, as well as some old friends, and tell others about it.
Book now on the FPS’s exciting new website at: http://www.thefrenchporcelainsociety.com/news/2017-symposium/
Please see below for the programme of events:
FRIDAY 20 OCTOBER 2017
10.00am Arrival at the Wallace Collection, Manchester Square, London W1
Coffee and Registration
10.30am Welcome
MORNING SESSION
Dr Aileen Dawson FSA, French Porcelain Studies in Britain
Dr Amelia Jackson, Saint-Cloud in the style of Louis XIV
Nicole Duchon, Mennecy Villeroy, some surprising new discoveries
Errol Manners FSA, The early porcelain of François Barbin at Villeroy and Paris
Pamela Roditi, Two travellers: Robinson and Clara
LUNCH 12.50.00-14.00
AFTERNOON SESSION
Cécile Dupont-Logié, Sceaux, Mennecy, Bourg-la-Reine, 1748-1792: the influence of Sèvres
Mathieu Deldicque, Chantilly porcelain – a new look
John Whitehead FSA, The painter Piat-Joseph Sauvage: his work on porcelain at Dihl
Dr Diana Davis, ‘A capital piece of Angoulême porcelain’: new light on a Dihl & Guérhard vase in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Valérie Montens, French porcelain in Brussels, the collecgions of the Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire, from Saint-Cloud to Paris
Dr Jacques Bastian with Frédéric Bastian, Porcelain from Eastern France: Strasbourg, Niderviller, Aprey
17.00 END OF SESSION
SATURDAY 21 OCTOBER 2017
MORNING SESSION: From 10.15
Dr Iris Moon, Use your illusion: Niderviller ceramics and rococo aesthetics at the Eighteenth-Century French Border
Caroline Roelens Duchamp, Petals in Porcelain: a bouquet for Delphine de Sabran, comtesse de Custine
11.15-11.30 COFFEE
Dr Howard Coutts, Paris and other French porcelain in the Bowes Museum
Dr Régine de Plinval de Guillebon, Dagoty, porcelain maker to the Empress Josephine [delivered by Aileen Dawson]
Tamara Préaud, Brongniart and the ‘Exposition des Produits de l’Industrie’ (1819-1844)
12.50 – 14.00 LUNCH
AFTERNOON SESSION
Audrey Gay-Mazuel, Parisian porcelain makers and the mid-19th century rococo revival
Virginie Desrante, Jules Lesme and Limoges in the style of Bernard Palissy
Sonia Banting, A little-known maker of pâte-sur-pâte: Charles Pillivuyt (1810-1872) and his porcelain factory in the Berry region
15.30– 16.00 TEA
Hélène Huret, Artists and Designers at Bernadaud, Limoges, from Kees van Dongen to Jeff Koons, know-how and invention
Céline Paul, From tableware to medicine: the Limoges porcelain industry in the 21st century
17.00 END
All papers will be delivered in English or with English translation.
Programme may be subject to minor changes