The International Ceramics Fair & Seminar
takes place this year
from the 12th-15th June at the Park Lane Hotel on
Piccadilly, London W1 (open daily: 11am-7pm and last day: 11am-6pm).
Lecture Programme
DR SAMUEL WITTWER
Director of Palaces and Collections
at the Prussian Palaces
and Gardens Foundation
B3 Friday 13th June, 4.30pm - 5.30pm
Interior Decoration and War Trophies – The
Porcelain Table Services of Frederick the Great of Prussia.
Frederick
the Great of Prussia discovered his love for porcelain during the Seven
years War (1756-63). He became interested in the concept of porcelain as
part of a decorative scheme within the State rooms. As a result both the
Meissen manufactory and the Berlin KPM factory produced more than 30 court
services to highlight the splendour of the Prussian Palaces.
R des
DANIELA ANTONIN
Assistant Director of the Hetjens-Museum for German ceramics
Düsseldorf
Curator of the Schneider Collection in Jaegerhof Manor
D3 Sunday 15th
June, 4pm – 5pm
THE MEISSEN PORCELAINS OF THE BAVARIAN ELECTORS –
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE HISTORICAL COLLECTION IN MUNICH
The porcelain collection
of the Bavarian electors Max Emanuel (1662 – 1726), Carl Albrecht
(1697–1745, from 1742 Emperor Carl VII.) and Max III. Joseph (1727–1777)
from the House of Wittelsbach is one of the oldest collections of this
renowned Saxon porcelain in the world. The collection was divided twice and
was not subsequently viewed as a whole. Daniela Antonin's 2006 dissertation
traces the origins of the Meissen porcelains of the House of Electors,
currently housed in the Munich Residence, in the Bavarian National Museum
and administered by the Wittelsbach Equalisation fund, and also
re-catalogues them. In her presentation, she will discuss selected works
from the historic porcelain collection of the House of Wittelsbach