Don Carpentier is again offing his workshop on ceramics at Eastfield

Village.  This is a very good course for learning a lot about ceramics from

a number of experts, a chance to handle ceramcis and see production

processes.   Further information can be had from [log in to unmask]

The lectures are listed below.



Peace,

George L. Miller





3.  British Ceramics: The Development of Technical Genius in the British

Ceramic Industry-1650-1850                            No limit

June22-24 (3 Days)                                          Fee: $465.00

From the earliest attempts to replicate the much-desired Chinese porcelains

to the introduction of turning lathes for earthenware production, the

British ceramics industry was in the forefront of the industrial

revolution. This 3-day symposium explores some of the remarkable inventions

that not only made Wedgwood & Spode household names, but had a powerful

effect on society, not only amongst the Potteries’ workers & their

families, but in a broader international context.  There will be a large

number of early 19th century models & molds from the Spode Factory

exhibited for the inspection of the participants. This is part of the

collection of rare material purchased from Spode by Eastfield in the past

year.

Lectures and Demonstrations include:

·     Beer Shops and Bread Riots, The changes in technology, including the

(limited) introduction of steam power & the increasing mechanization of

making processes, did not come about without a huge impact on the way of

life of the ordinary working potters – men, women & children.  This lecture

looks at some of the changes in the working & home life of the Georgian &

early Victorian potters including child labor, the rise of the unions &

food riots. Miranda Goodby, Keeper of ceramics, the Potteries Museum, Stoke

on Trent, UK

·     From Clay to Glost Oven, This talk covers the processes involved in

the many phases of pottery production from the raw state to the final glaze

firing until the late 20th century. It includes a section on the process of

bat & transfer printing.  Robert Copeland, author & former historian of the

Spode Factory & noted member of the family that ran Spode for over 175

years

·     The Development of Lathe Turning in the Potteries from the 18th

century to the mid 19th century, Lecture details the progression of lathe

work from the simple turner’s lathe to the complicated rose & crown engine

lathes. Includes how these lathes actually worked & what was made on them.

Don Carpentier, practical potter & director of Eastfield Village.

·     Josiah Wedgwood, Master Potter & Marketing Genius, From his

experiments to create new bodies and glazes, to his ability to secure royal

contracts for his pottery, Josiah Wedgwood was one of England’s most

important and influential potters of the 18th century. Nancy Ramage,

professor of art history at Ithaca College, author & lecturer on 18th

century pottery, especially Wedgwood.

·     The Influence of Chinese Export Porcelain on British Ceramics in the

18th to early 19th Century, Traces the use of Chinese designs after the

development of porcelain in Britain (1740s), the role of the East India

Company in providing Chinese Export porcelain for the upper class,

factories who provided matchings and entire tea & dinner services in the

Chinese style to an ever increasing public demand, with an emphasis on the

prominent role played by Josiah Spode. Connie Rogers, General Editor of the

Transferware Collector’s Club Database of Transfer-printing patterns C.

1780-1900, author & lecturer.

·     The Rise and Fall of Slip, Slip decoration on utilitarian

earthenwares rose to extraordinary heights of inventiveness during the

1770-1840 period, then began a long, slow slide into oblivion. Rickard

explores some of the more creative uses in which fluid clay was used to

make everyday objects visually exciting. Jonathan Rickard, Author,

Collector and Independent scholar specializing in 18th and 19th century

Mocha & Diptwares

·     Ceramics for Hyde Hall, Cooperstown, NY 1813-1834, Hyde Hall, one of

the great country houses in America, was designed by its builder George

Clarke & Philip Hooker, Albany's leading neoclassical architect, between

1817 and 1828 on a site overlooking Otsego Lake near Cooperstown. It stayed

in his family until purchased by the state in 1963.  A number of the

original contents remain in the house. Clarke was a meticulous record

keeper & many of the bills for his furnishings still survive. These

document his choices of English, French & a few Chinese ceramics from

retail merchants & auction in Albany, Cooperstown & New York City between

1813 & 1834. Dr  Gilbert Vincent, Independent Scholar& former Director of

the NY State Historical Society, Cooperstown NY

·     The Making of Potter’s Tools by a Potter,. Demonstration of the

creation of a blowing bottle for slip work & a three chamber slip pot. Bob

Nopper, Practical Potter, Salem, NY, manager Bear Pottery Studio, creating

functional & decorative stoneware, sculpture & raku pottery

·     The Evolution of Polychrome-Painted Pearlware from the Late 18th to

the Early 19th Century. Lecture and Demonstration. Denise Carpentier

Practical Potter, specializing in polychrome pearlware reproductions &

adaptations.

Searching through Spode, Detailed visual account of the search through

three enormous late 18th century storage buildings at the Spode Factory

site for early tools, models & master-molds in 2006 & 2007. Learn about

important items.that were recovered in the



                                                                              

 This e-mail and any attachments are confidential. If you receive this        

 message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should not retain,   

 distribute, disclose or use any of this information and you should destroy   

 the e-mail and any attachments or copies.