Past Programs

Searching for Ceramics for the Bayou Bend Collection: Intention and Opportunity

Searching for Ceramics for the Bayou Bend Collection: Intention and Opportunity

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Pictures Worth a Thousand Pots: Tracing Ceramics in Art

Pictures Worth a Thousand Pots: Tracing Ceramics in Art

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Worcester Porcelain 1751–1775, the Dr. Wall Period of Production

Worcester Porcelain 1751–1775, the Dr. Wall Period of Production

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The Hetzel Collection of Japanese Ceramics

The Hetzel Collection of Japanese Ceramics

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Return to Rienzi:  Porcelain Story Continues, presented by Christine Gervais

Return to Rienzi: Porcelain Story Continues, presented by Christine Gervais

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Setting the Taste of the Nation: Dining with George and Martha Washington

Setting the Taste of the Nation: Dining with George and Martha Washington

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The Wonder of Ardmore Ceramic Art from South Africa

The Wonder of Ardmore Ceramic Art from South Africa

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Additional Past Programs

Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle DVD Collection of Speakers

1994-2019

DVDs are available to members by contacting [email protected].

 

#1 10/24/94 Henri Gadbois, Member Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle

Faux Foods

 

#2 3/27/95 James W. Whitehead, Washington & Lee University,

A Collection and Its Collectors-A Story of the Reeves Collection

 

#3 9/27/99 John W. Keefe, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA,

Paris Porcelain 1775-1875

 

#4 10/25/99 Cindi Strauss, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,

Worcester 1751-1785

 

#5  11/22/99 Tim Sublette, Seekers, Columbus, OH

Transferware

 

#6 1/31/00 Dona Dee Rowe, Member Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle Chinese Ceramics Carol Jean Moehlman, Member Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle, Tin-Glazed Earthenware

 

#7 2/21/00 William R. Sargent, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem,

MA, Chinese Export Porcelain

 

#8 3/27/00 Miranda Goodby, Pottery Museum, Stoke-on-Trent,

UK White Salt-Glaze Stoneware

 

#9 9/25/00 Henri Gadbois and Delores Martin, Members Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle, eBay

 

#10 10/30/00 Leslie Grigsby, Winterthur, English, Delftware Longridge Collection

 

#11 11/20/00 Cheryl Robertson, Metropolitan Museum of Art,

Ceramics of Dresser

 

#12 3/26/01 Charlotte Jacob-Hanson, Lecturer, Historian, and Collector, Bad Soden, Germany, Catherine the Great

 

#13 9/17/01 Elva Needles, Elva Needles Antiques, Kansas City,

MO Staffordshire for American Market

 

#14 11/26/01 Fance Franck, Ceramic Artist, Paris, France.

Fresh Red Porcelain and Other Works

 

#15 1/28/02 Barry Greenlaw, Appraiser, Lecturer, Houston.

Porcelain in Country Houses

 

#16 2/25/02 Stuart Slavid, Skinners, Boston, MA, Show and Tell

 

#17 4/22/02 Jeanne Cunningham, Member Ima Hogg Ceramic

Circle A Pueblo Pottery Primer

 

#18 9/23/02 Michael Brown, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, Texas Pottery at Bayou Bend

 

#19 10/28/02 Letitia Roberts, Appraiser and Lecturer

Connoisseurship: Eye of the Beholder

 

#20 11/25/02 Amanda Lange, Historic Deerfield, Inc.

Delftware at Deerfield 1600-1800

 

#21 1/27/03 Kay Handly, Member Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle Bulb Pots, Bough Pots, Jelly Jars and Bricks Flower Arranging in the Past

 

#22 3/24/03 Edith Mayo, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, First Ladies: Search for American China

 

#23 11/24/03 Ronald Freyberger, Metropolitan Museum of Art,

Gallery Talks, Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

#24 1/26/04 Cindi Strauss, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Worcester Porcelain 1751-1783

 

#25 2/23/04 Field Trip to the Christopher Casey Home No commentary on DVD

 

#26 3/22/04 Daniel Nadler, Collector, Chinese Export Porcelain 1700-1900

 

#27 4/26/04 Meredith Chilton, Gardiner Museum

Commedia del Arte, 18th Century Porcelain

 

#28 11/22/04 Antoine d’Albis, Amis d’Museum, Paris

Hard Paste/Soft Paste Sevres

 

#29 3/28/05 Delores Martin, Member Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle

Chinese Celadon

 

#30 4/25/05 Patricia Halfpenny, Winterthur, English Earthenware Figures

 

#31 10/24/05 Henri Gadbois, Member Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle

English Transferware

 

#32 2/27/06 Nicolas Dawes, Appraiser, Antiques Road Show,

Victorian Majolica Ware

 

#33 4/24/06 Thomas Michie, Los Angeles County Art Museum,

Rhode Island and the China Trade

 

#34 9/25/06 William Stubbs, Author and International Interior Decorator, Decorative Arts Add Luxury to Life

 

#35 10/23/06 Teresa Tsao, National Palace Museum, Taipei,

Taiwan, Appraising Chinese Porcelain

 

#36 11/27/06 Garrison Stradling, Antique Dealer, Appraiser, Lecturer, American Porcelain Pioneers 1771-1838

 

#37 3/23/07 Ronald Otsuka, Denver Art Museum,

Japanese Export Porcelain, 1650-1750

 

#38 4/23/07 Dr. Aileen Dawson, British Museum

18th Century Worcester Porcelain

 

#39 9/24/07 Christina Prescott-Walker, Sotheby’s

Fifty Years of Fluctuation in the Market for British Ceramics

 

#40 10/22/07 Charlotte Jacob-Hanson, Germany

The Bird Painting of Louis Victor Gerverot

 

#41 11/28/07 Christian Jorge, Leiden University,

The Netherlands Oriental Porcelain in the Dutch Interior

 

#42 1/28/08 Christine D. Starkman, Museum of Fine Arts,

Houston, Treasures from the National Museum of Korea

 

#43 2/25/08 Rachel C. Sabino-Gunaratna, Museum of Fine Arts,

Houston, A Collectors Guide to Ceramics Conservation

 

#44 4/28/08 William Sargent, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem

Understanding Chinese Export Porcelain

 

#45 9/22/08 Stuart Slavid, Skinners of Boston, Recent Trends in Wedgwood Collecting

 

#46 1/26/09 Katherine Howe and Christine Gervais, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, European Porcelain at Rienzi: New Discoveries and Acquisitions

 

#47 3/23/09 Patricia Halfpenny, Winterthur Museum, Do You Know Your Bat from Your Hot-press Printing?

 

#48 5/11/09 William Sargent, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem,

Yixing Ware and its Influence on Western Ceramics

 

#49 A and B 9/28/09 Kristina Van Dyke, Menil Collection and Foundation, Houston, Malian Terra Cotta Figurative Sculpture: 11th-17th Century, Part I and II

 

#50 10/26/09 Leslie Grigsby, Winterthur Museum, What’s for Dinner? Tableware and Traditions in 18th Century Britain and America

 

#51 1/25/10 Dr. Scott Ruby, Hillwood Estate, Washington, DC,

Dining with the Tsars, Porcelain and the Imperial Russian Court

 

#52 2/22/10 Don Carpentier, Eastfield Village, East Nassau,

New York, Treasures of Spode 1790-1850

 

#53 3/22/10 Liana Paredes, Hillwood Estate and Gardens,

Washington, DC, Sevres, Then and Now

 

#54 4/26/10 Robert Hunter, Publisher Ceramics in America, The Magic of the Potter’s Art, Anglo American Ceramic Technology

 

#55 5/11/10 Mary Francis Bennett, Author, Invitation to Cat Springs

 

#56 9/27/10 Dr. Jacqueline Marie Musacchio, Wellesley College, The Function of Italian Renaissance Majolica

 

#57 10/25/10 Amanda Lange, Historic Deerfield, 18th Century English Ceramics for the American Market

 

#58 11/22/10 Dr. Jesse J. Poesch, Newcomb College, Tulane University, Newcomb Pottery 1895-1940

 

#59 1/24/11 Elinor Pearlstein, Art Institute of Chicago, Escorts for Eternity: Burial Ceramics of Early Imperial China

 

#60 3/28/11 Ronald W. Fuchs II, Washington and Lee University, A Call to Arms: Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the British and American Markets

 

#61 5/9/11 David Lackey, Houston, Collector, Antiques Roadshow – No DVD

 

#62 9/19/11 Ivan Day, British Food Historian, Author and Artist, Crocant, Collop & Codsounds: Exploring the Influence of Specific Foods and Drinks on the Design of Ceramics, Glass and Silver Tableware

 

#63-A and B 10/24/11 Alexandra Kirtley, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Tucker Porcelain, In-depth Encounter with American Porcelain, Part I and II

 

#64-A and B 11/28/11 Christine Gervais, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Rienzi Exhibition, It’s English Taste! The Art of 18th Century Dining, Part I and II

 

#65 1/23/12 Ann Forschler Tarrasch, Birmingham Museum of Art, More Than Jasper: Wedgwood in the Collection of the Birmingham Museum of Art

 

#66 4/23/12 Myrna Schkolne, Author, Collector and Scholar,

Commentaries in Clay: Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835

 

#67 5/14/12 Henri Gadbois, Member Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle,

New Friends, New Finds, Hot Gossip Discovered On eBay

 

#68-A and B 9/24/12 Meredith Chilton, Independent Art Historian, From the Garden to the Table: Impact on Horticulture and Gastronomy and the Development of French Wares for the Table Part I and II

 

#69 10/22/12 Anita Ellis, Cincinnati Art Museum, Rookwood and the American Indian

 

#70 11/12/12 Jodie Wilkie, Christies New York, An Anatomy of an Auction, French Porcelain

 

#71 1/28/13 Beverly Straube, Jamestown Rediscovery, Fit for a Colonist: Ceramic Discoveries from 17th Century Jamestown,

Virginia

 

#72 2/28/13 Catherine Roeber, Winterthur Museum, Splendid Sturgeon and Lost Ladies: The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Public Dining in Early America

 

#73 4/22/13 Donna Pierce, Denver Art Museum, Mud to Masterpieces: Mexican Colonial Ceramics

 

#74 5/13/13 Michael K. Brown, Curator Bayou Bend, Presented by Remi Dyll, Our Treasures, Gifts from the Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle to the Bayou Bend Collection

 

#75 9/23/13 Matthew Baer, Specialist in Fine Asian Porcelain Antiques, Japanese Imari Porcelain and the History of the Fukagawa Studio

 

#76 10/28/2013 Adam Erby, Mount Vernon, George

Washington’s Chinese Export at Mount Vernon

 

#77 11/18/2013 Henri Gadbois, Member, Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle, New Discoveries in Texian Campaign Ware

 

#78 1/27/2014 Catherine Futter, PhD., Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kings, Queens, Treason: The Burnap Collection of British Pottery – No DVD

 

#79 2/24/2014 David L. Barquist, PhD., Philadelphia Museum of Art, American Presidential China: To Fix the Taste of Our Country

 

#80 4/28/2014 Lenora Costa, Collections at Longue Vue House and Gardens. Creamware Always Rises to the Top, Creamware of Longue Vue House

 

#81 5/12/2014 Jane Gillies, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Ceramic and Porcelain Restoration – No DVD

 

#82 9/22/2014 Johanna M. Brown, Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts, Art in Clay: Masterworks of North Carolina Earthenware

 

#83 10/27/2014 Janine E. Skerry, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Beyond Governor Winthrop’s Stone Pott: Exploring the Evidence for Stoneware in Early America

 

#84 11/17/2014 Donald R. Friary, Executive Director Emeritus, Historic Deerfield, One Bowl More and Then: Punch Drinking in the 18th Century

 

#85 2/23/2015 Ronald W. Fuchs II, Washington and Lee University, Success to America: Creamware for the American Market

 

#86 3/23/2015 Lisa Minardi, Winterthur Museum,

Pennsylvania German Earthenware

 

#87 4/27/2015 Cindi Strauss, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Ceramics as Installation Art: The New Frontier

 

#88 5/11/2015 J. Lynn Hamilton, David Lackey and Cissie Van Riet, Members Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle Colloquy: A Discussion with Three Who Built Ceramic Collections – No DVD

 

#89 9/28/2015 Stuart Slavid, Skinner, Inc., Demystifying

Wedgwood’s Fairyland Luster

 

#90 10/26/2015 Amy Kurlander, William J. Hill, Texas Artisans and Artists Archive, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens Stoneware Pottery In Nineteenth Century Texas

 

#91 11/23/2015 Alexandra A. Kirtley, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Allure: Early American Porcelain by John Bartlam

 

#92 2/22/2016 Jill Fenichell of Jeffery S. Evans and Associates,

Porcelain and Ceramic Representations of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

 

#93 3/28/2016 Angelika R. Kuettner, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, Some Took a Shine to It: Evidence for Silver Lusterware in Late Federal America

 

#94 4/25/2016 Christine Gervais, Rienzi The Museum of Fine Arts, Housto, Silver-Mounted Porcelains

 

#95 5/9/2016 William R. Sargent, formerly of the Peabody Essex Museum, Symposium and Luncheon, Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle, The Manner of Making Porcelain: Construction Techniques of Chinese Ceramics Asian Ceramics for Western Markets: Influence and Imitations

No DVD

 

#96 9/26/2016 Nicholas Dawes, Heritage Auctions, New York Appraiser, Antiques Roadshow, Reform, Railways and Revivalism: Victorian Culture Reflected in the Majolica Craze

 

#97 10/24/ 2016 Ji Eun You, PhD candidate, University North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Early Makers of Sevres Porcelain

 

#98 11/14/2016 Thomas Michie, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Bought of Nobody for Almost Nothing: Collecting Ceramics in 19th Century New England

 

#99 1/23/2017 Will Motley, Cohen and Cohen, Specialists in Chinese Export Porcelain, London, England Chinese Whispers: European Prints on Chinese Export Porcelain

 

#100 3/27/2017 Robert F. Doares, Colonial Williamsburg, Vieux Paris? Vieux Limoges? New Light on French Porcelain in the Antebellum South

 

#101 4/24/2017 Amanda Lange, Historic Deerfield From Pompeii to Your Parlor, Neo-classical Ceramics for the American Home

 

#102 5/8/2017 Delores Martin, Cecilia Mazzola, and Jeannie Osborne, Members Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle, Colloquy: A Discussion with Three who Built Ceramic Collections

 

#103 9/25/2017 Suzanne Findlen Hood, Collecting in America:

From a Tennessee Face Jug to a New York Coffeepot

 

#104 10/23/2017 Yayoi Shinoda, Connecting with Nature: Japanese Ceramics with Natural Motifs from the Collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

 

#105 11/13/2017 Robert Prescott Walker, Forty Years of People and Pots: A Personal Journey

 

#106 2/26/2018 Robert Doares, New Light on the President Hayes White House Dinner Service

 

#107 3/26/2018 Meredith Martin, Porcelain Rooms from Santos Palace To the Frick Collection

 

#108 4/23/2018 Letitia Roberts, The Latest Dish: A Century of Ceramics Collecting in America, from 1900 to Present

 

#109 5/14/2018 Bradley Brooks, Ceramics at Bayou Bend: Collection of Collections

 

#110 9/24/2018 Chelsea Dacus,, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Miss Ima Hogg Ceramics Collector: Beyond the Bayou Bend Collection

 

#111 10/22/2018 Brian Gallagher, The Delhom Collection and British Ceramic Treasurers in the Mint Museum

 

#112 11/12/2018 Beatrice Chan, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, An American Taste for Chinese Imperial Ceramics: The Charlene Quitter Thompson Bequest to the MFAH and the Enduring Veneration of Qing Dynasty Imperial Ceramics

 

#113 1/21/2019 J. Lynn Hamilton, Collector, IHCC past president, The Splendors of Regency Porcelains

 

#114 2/25/2019 Aimée E. Froom, Ph.D, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The al-Sabah Collection of Tin-glazed Ceramics from Islamic Lands: Innovation, Influence, and Exchange

 

#115 4/22/2019 Adrienne Spinozzi, Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Art Pottery: Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection

 

#116 5/13/2019 Maria L. Santangelo, Curator, Ann and Gordon Getty Private Collection, A Princely Pursuit: The Malcolm D. Gutter Collection of Early Meissen Porcelain

 

#117 9/30/2019 Debbie Miller, Archaeologist National Park Service, Colonial Pottery: Brand New Archaeological Discoveries Teach us Unexpected and Surprising Truths about Early Life in America

 

#118 10/28/2019 Dr. Elizabeth Williams, Curator, Rhode Island School of Design, Eye Candy for the Dining Table: Craftsmen have used Insects, Reptiles, Amphibians, Crustaceans, Moths and Fish to Skillfully Decorate Silver and Ceramics Dinnerware and Utensils from the 18th through the 21st Centuries

 

#119 11/11/19 Dr. Bradley Bailey, Curator of Asian Arts, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Japanese Ceramics: New Perspectives on Centuries-old Traditions Illustrate the Importance of Nature in Influencing Aesthetic Design, Material, and Composition