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Database of Patterns & Sources Count
17,940 patterns, 1,118 sources now available in the Database Patterns and Sources.
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Dear Transferware Enthusiasts:
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The TCC meeting committee is closing in on a venue and date for our 2023 national meeting. We’re looking at a major East Coast city, likely in late September or October. We know that members want to reserve the dates in their calendars, and will transmit a Special eNews as soon as plans are solidified. | |
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All grant applications must be received by May 4.
Launched in 2009, the Richards Research Grant Program is dedicated to supporting research focused on British transferware produced between 1750 and 1900. Annual funding for this program remains at $10,000. A summary of winning proposals from previous years is available here. Download application.
For More Information, Contact: Dan Sousa, Grant Administrator: dsousa1775@gmail.com
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TRANSFERWARE WORLDWIDE LECTURE SERIES 2023 | |
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April 20th, 1PM EDT
19th Century English and Low Country Vessels Created by Makers Josiah Wedgwood, Enoch Wood, and Enslaved David Drake
Speaker: Scott Alves Barton, Faculty Fellow in Race and Resilience at Notre Dame
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Description: Scott Alves Barton holds a Ph.D. in Food Studies from New York University, is a faculty fellow in Race and Resilience at the University of Notre Dame. He had a 25-year career as an executive chef and culinary educator. Ebony magazine named him one of the top 25 African American/Diaspora chefs. His research and publications focus on women’s knowledge, the intersection of secular and sacred cuisine as a marker of identity politics, cultural heritage, political resistance, and self-determination in Northeastern Brazil. Recent publications include “Radical Moves from the Margins: Enslaved Entertainments as Harvest Celebration in Northeastern Brazil,” in The Body Questions: Celebrating Flamenco’s Tangled Roots, “Food and Faith,” in Bryant Terry’s Black Food: Stories, Art, and Recipes from the African Diaspora. His exhibition, Buried in the Heart: A Repast for Angels and Martyrs focusing on anti-black violence, funerary foods and African Diaspora ancestral worship opened in January at Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee as part of his ongoing Call & Response residency as public scholar. Barton’s previous residencies include Juba/Sanctuary, honoring the beginning of enslavement, 1619-2019. Barton is currently writing a companion manuscript for this exhibition, Reckoning with Violence and Black Death: Repasts as Community Ritual. | |
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Our Speaker: Scott has been a fellow at Instituto Tepoztlán, Vanderbilt’s Issues in Critical Investigation, Fundação Palmares and has served as a board member of the Southern Foodways Alliance. Scott is a board member of The Association for the Study of Food and Society, Secretary/Treasurer of The Society for the Anthropology of Food and Nutrition, Co-Chair of the African Diaspora Religions Unit within the American Academy of Religion, and a board member of The Indigo Diaspora Arts Alliance. Scott has been working as a curriculum consultant to the Culinary Institute of America, in Hyde Park, N.Y., the African Diaspora Heritage educational gardens at the New York Botanical Gardens, and the Center for Culinary Development. This autumn, Scott will continue at Notre Dame as a an Assistant Professor in Africana Studies.
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July 20th: The British Buzz: The Relevance of Beekeeping to 19th century British Ceramic Design
Speaker: Leslie Lambour Bouterie, Independent Scholar, Visiting Curator of Ceramics at James Madison’s Montpelier and Visiting Scholar for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
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Plan to join fellow ceramic enthusiasts for this informative lecture series. Specific details regarding access links to each Zoom lecture will be provided via email prior to each presentation date. Past lectures available for viewing on the TCC website to members only. | |
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Wedgwood’s “April” Plate Puzzle
This month’s free online puzzle features Wedgwood’s month plate "April," made ca. 1880. The April center is paired with Wedgwood's "Ivanhoe" border. The month patterns were originally made for tiles but proved so popular that Wedgwood (1759-2005) adapted them for plates. This series with each tile depicting a month of the year was designed by Helen Miles, a designer, painter and illustrator who designed several series of tiles for Wedgwood in the 1870s. A document in the Wedgwood archives records that the series of months was registered in March 1878. An 8-inch square version of the tiles was also produced with the addition of a one-inch-wide outer border.
For the plates, Wedgwood paired the tile engravings with borders already in use. Here, the "Ivanhoe" border was used. The border is more often found with centers that depict scenes from the Sir Walter Scott story of "Ivanhoe." Most of the 12 months are recorded in the TCC Database including 8-inch tile and dinnerware examples.
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Aestheticism on the Dinner Table: The ‘Etching Revival’ and Transferware
Lecturer: Jeffrey Ruda
In 1867-68, French artist Félix Bracquemond etched the transfer prints for Europe’s first table service in a new Japonesque style. The service was a huge critical and commercial success, and was quickly embraced by potters in Staffordshire. The design breakthrough has always been recognized, but not the choice and effect of etched transfer prints instead of engravings. The talk discusses the scope, look, and meaning of this unconventional medium when etching itself was an art-world fashion.
Jeffrey Ruda is Professor Emeritus of Art History at the University of California, Davis, where he headed the Art History faculty for twelve years. His publications include Fra Filippo Lippi: Life and Work, London & New York, 1993; and The Art of Drawing: Old Masters from the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, Flint (MI), 1992, as well as journal articles. He has been a ceramics fan and collector since grad school, and he was president of the San Francisco Ceramic Circle from 2013 to 2019. An active member of the TCC, he is also a contributor to the TCC Database of Patterns and Sources. Watch Video.
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Edward Kennard artist
This pattern is part of a dinner service of 100 pieces decorated with birds, fish, and other animals in a natural setting. It was made by T.C. Brown-Westhead, Moore & Co.(1862-1905), and was designed by the artist Edward Kennard. For members, this pattern is 14185 in the TCC Database of Patterns and Sources.
View larger image and past Patterns of the Month.
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Thanks to Judie Siddall for preparing the "Pattern of the Month." | |
LOOKING for a FEW (MORE) DATABASE EDITORS | |
Looking for anyone with a passion for the beauty and history of transferware who would like to help record lovely old patterns for a worldwide audience. The Database of Patterns and Sources is maintained by a team of the nicest people you'd ever want to meet. You could be one of them! We're currently looking for editors in Romantic patterns, Literature and Performing Arts, and Tiles, but let us know your interests and we can find a spot for you. Contact Len at otlink@aol.com for more information! | |
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2022 Vol. XXIII No. 2
New bulletin nearing completion, watch for announcement.
The TCC Bulletin Index -- incorporating listings of articles from the Fall 1999 issue through to the most recent issue. A rich resource! Search Index.
Bulletin editor is seeking contributions for the upcoming bulletin. Contacts:
Richard Halliday bulletineditor@transferwarecollectorsclub.org or David Hoexter: davidhoexter@icloud.com
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SEEKING BULLETIN SUBMITTALS | |
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The TCC Bulletin editor seeks submittals to future editions, particularly from first time or occasional authors. We have an extremely knowledgeable member base, yet many of our members seldom or never share their knowledge, at least in printed form. Now is your chance. Bulletin submittals do not need to be extremely technical or lengthy. They just need to be interesting and relate to British transferware! And they need to be accompanied by quality images. We would especially welcome articles from our growing number of archaeologist members.
Don’t fret if you have little experience. We will be pleased to work with you, to formulate your concept and bring your article along. Simply send us your ideas, if that is where you are, or text, even in preliminary form, if you are further along. Please submit in MS Word format, and separately, images in png, pdf or jpeg format. Please do NOT convert to PDF. Don’t worry if this is a problem for you; we’ll work with you to bring your article from preliminary to final, printed, stage, no matter your level of computer and word processes experience.
Suggested topics:
- Your favorite transferware piece, either your own or displayed elsewhere (why is it your favorite?, how did you acquire it?, what is the pattern, maker if known?).
- What is your favorite place to view transferware: museum? stately home? Historic or archaeological site?
- Tell (and show) us your own collection (really good pictures required).
- New discoveries.
- Archaeological sites: overall summary of the excavation as relates to transferware; discuss a particular pattern or piece; context/importance of the transferware.
- In-depth research of a pattern, series, maker.
Contacts:
Richard Halliday, TCC Bulletin Editor: blueandwhite@btinternet.com
David Hoexter: davidhoexter@icloud.com
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LECTURE, SYMPOSIA, and MEETING INVITATIONS | |
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San Francisco Ceramic Circle
April 23, 2023 Save the Date.
Confrontational Ceramics
Dr. Judith Schwartz, Professor Emerita, Department of Art, New York University
Live at the Gunn Theater and virtual via Zoom.
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San Francisco Ceramic Circle
May 16, 2023 Save the Date.
Looking Forward and Back: Diverging Aesthetics in American Art Pottery
Dr. Adrienne Spinozzi, Curator of American Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum
Co-sponsored with the American design and Arts Forum. Virtual via Zoom.
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Spode Society
Sunday June 18, 2023 - Save the Date
Annual General Meeting and Seminar
The venue has yet to be finalized, further information will be available on their website (www.spode-society.co.uk) and social media and in the May 2023 issue of The Spode Review. The meeting will be open to non members.
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Friends of Blue
Sunday July 16, 2023
Annual Meeting venue: The Spode Museum Trust Heritage Centre, Stoke-on-Trent, England. Program details pending.
Check website meeting page for more information:
https://www.fob.org.uk/meetings/
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TCC Annual Meeting
late September or early October
venue and additional information pending
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The Cambrian Company: Swansea Pottery in London 1806-1808, by Jonathan Gray
In 1808, James Christie II was employed to sell the remaining stock of the Cambrian Company, the London Warehouse of the Swansea Pottery located at 64 Fleet Street. The auction sales, between February and April 1808, comprised around 14,000 pieces in over 1,000 lots, similar in scale to the Wedgwood & Bentley disposals in 1781. Much of the finest pottery made in Swansea was included in these 1808 sales - pieces decorated with Nelson, the Welsh Bard, Birds and Butterflies etc. More info.
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The Diaz collection: Material Culture and Social Change in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Monterey (California), by David L. Felton and Peter D. Schultz
This report, prepared by the Cultural Resource Management Unit of the California Department of Parks and Recreation, describes archaeological excavations and studies of the 1820s Cooper-Molera Adobe. It includes a healthy dose of transferware. Available as a PDF download. Download here.
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CLUB & INFORMATION WEBSITES | |
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HHCG is an informal, very friendly group who meet once a month at St Wilfrid’s Church, Church Road, Haywards Heath to listen to talks by experts, including collectors, curators, archaeologists, auctioneers, dealers, and social historians many of whom are well known in the media. Members interested in ceramics at all levels of knowledge are always made very welcome. Visit the site.
International Willow Collectors
International Willow Collectors (IWC) is a group of people who collect willow-pattern china and other willow wares. Our primary purpose is to increase members knowledge and enjoyment of willow and to provide a network through which we can communicate with fellow collectors throughout the world. Visit the site.
Find more of the informative resources we've compiled here.
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A Membership List updated in September 2022 is now available (for members only and only for non-commercial use). Download now. Please review your entry on the list, and notify us of any changes in your contact information. | |
Has Your Postal Mailing Address Changed?????
If you have moved but are not receiving your quarterly TCC Bulletin, you probably forgot to notify our member chair of your new address (this applies to email address changes also). The bulletin is mailed “bulk” and is not forwarded to new addresses by the USPS. Please notify the member chair directly: membership@transferwarecollectorsclub.org
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MORE ABOUT TRANSFERWARE COLLECTORS CLUB | |
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS
We are now accepting simple classified (not display) advertisements from TCC member transferware dealers as well as non-dealer members and auction houses. There is no charge for this member service. Following are the criteria:
- Limited to three quality images of item(s) for sale or example(s) of an item(s) you wish to purchase.
- Include a very short description paragraph, including a link to your website and/or email address.
- Dealers must be TCC members, limited to once/year maximum.
- Requests will be processed in the order received, and there is no guarantee as to when your ad will be posted.
- The TCC Web Administrator at his/her discretion has the right to reject inappropriate or inadequate submittals.
Contact:
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The Database Needs Editors
Do you love a good mystery? Do you fancy yourself to be a Sherlock Holmes or Miss Marple? If your answer is "yes", then you are the perfect candidate to join the ranks of TCC Database Detectives! Download more information.
New Database Discoveries
Articles Needed
Please contact the web administrator with suggestions or contributions of future Database Discoveries articles. See Database Discoveries archives.
Contributions Needed for Bulletin
Bulletin editor Richard Halliday is seeking contributions for the upcoming bulletin.
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