Illustrating Chinese ceramics in the early twentieth century: The Art of the Chinese Potter and other ventures
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery holds the original ‘colour guides’ for R.L. Hobson and A.L.Hetherington’s 1923 publication The Art of the Chinese Potter. These are stunning hand-coloured photographs which were used to illustrate ceramics from the collections of early members of the Oriental Ceramic Society such as George Eumorfopoulos, H.J.Oppenheim, and Ferdinand Schiller. The talk will consider which ceramics were chosen for illustration and how the burgeoning interest in Chinese ceramics may have affected developments in printing.
The refreshments at the lecture are generously sponsored by Woolley & Wallis
Speaker
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Kate NewnhamSenior Curator, Visual Arts, Bristol Museum & Art GalleryKate Newnham is responsible for the art team and collections including the Designated collection of East Asian art.
Kate studied History at the University of York, followed by a Masters in Museum Studies at Leicester. Prior to Bristol she worked at the Victoria & Albert Museum on the British Galleries capital project. At Bristol she has overseen the refurbishment of a suite of art galleries and curated exhibitions focussing on Japanese woodblock prints and netsuke, Indian textiles and paintings and Chinese glass. She also helped to curate M Shed, the dockside museum of Bristol which opened in 2011. In 2014, with Shannon Guo, Claire Blakey and Helen Brown she co-curated an exhibition of contemporary Chinese ceramics and glass Ahead of the Curve: New china from China which toured to three UK museums.
