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Book SynopsisThe global porcelain scene is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, which was founded by Brian Haughton and his wife, Anna, in London in 1982. That was just the beginning: further fairs and accompanying symposia on design, jewellery, and antiques in New York and Dubai were to follow, becoming important venues of exchange, not just for trade but for the academic world too.
To mark this anniversary, more than 40 renowned scholars were asked to write about selected European ceramics that had been traded in Brian Haughton’s gallery and that he had been particularly passionate about.
This publication is a wonderful kaleidoscope of unique ceramics from the 18th and 19th centuries, released as a homage to Brian Haughton, The Man with the Butterfly Tie.
Table of Contents9 Foreword 11 A Celebration of Brian Haughton ROSALIND SAVILL AND MEREDITH CHILTON Ceramics from around the World Britain 23 Foxes, Fairs and Friends: An Early Bow Model of a Fox JULIE EMERSON 26 From Samarkand to Stratford-le-Bow: Tamerlane and the Sultana PATRICIA F. FERGUSON 29 Chelsea ‘Goat-and-Bee’ Jug J. V. G. MALLET 32 Inventive Hybridity: Two Chelsea Chinoiserie Teapots FRANCESCA VANKE 35 An Object with Many Facets PETER KAELLGREN 38 Plants of the Enlightenment on a Plate: The Timeless Allure of Chelsea’s Innovative Botanical Designs SALLY KEVILL-DAVIES 41 Soused and Collared: Chelsea Eels on the Rococo Table IVAN DAY 44 Drama and Delight at the June Fair ROSALIE WISE SHARP 46 ‘Taking Tea with Dr Wall’: A Chinoiserie Moulded Early Worcester Teapot PAUL CRANE 49 The Beauty of English Chinoiserie FERGUS GAMBON 52 The Vauxhall Goatherd: A Curious Transformation ROGER MASSEY 55 Richard Chaffers’s Porcelain Statuette of John Milton: A Culmination of Collecting Eighteenth-Century Porcelain Sculpture at the Detroit Institute of Arts ALAN P. DARR 58 Of Cabbages – and Kings LETITIA ROBERTS 61 Exotic Pottery: The Pineapple in Staffordshire PAT HALFPENNY 64 Inspired Imitation JANINE E . SKERRY 67 A Pair of Magnificent Mason’s Hall Vases GAYE BLAKE-ROBERTS France & Belgium 71 A Cockerel with Something to Crow About HOWARD COUTTS 74 Privileged Pleasure: Kakiemon at Chantilly DANIEL CHEN 78 Gods of Good Fortune: A Pair of Chantilly Pot-Pourri Figures OLIVER FAIRCLOUGH 81 The Happiest of Shepherds: A Vincennes Masterpiece ROSALIND SAVILL 84 In Search of Blue: A Vincennes ‘bleu lapis’ Teapot ANTOINE D’ALBIS 87 A Parrot for a Duke? AILEEN DAWSON 90 A New Influence at Sèvres: A Pair of ‘Bouteille persane’ Vases TAMARA PRÉAUD 93 A Tournai Bust of a Man JEFFREY MUNGER Germany & Austria 97 How to Shape European Porcelain: The First Assortment of the Meissen Manufactory JULIA WEBER 100 From China to Saxony: A Meissen Cadogan Pot RUTH SONJA SIMONIS 103 A Pair of Meissen ‘Feng’ Teapots WILLIAM R. SARGENT 106 What’s in a Name? An Armorial Meissen Footed Saucepan for Queen Maria Josepha MAUREEN CASSIDY-GEIGER 109 Best Friends at the Royal Dresden Court MELITTA KUNZE-KÖLLENSPERGER 112 A Snuffbox Tribute to Brian DEBORAH GAGE 115 Always a Warm Welcome KATHARINA HANTSCHMANN 118 Ice-Cream from an Etruscan Toiletry Case SAMUEL WITTWER 121 The Pinnacle of Style: A Pair of Fürstenberg Vases CHRISTIAN LECHELT 124 Antiquity for Dessert CLAUDIA LEHNER-JOBST Italy & Spain 129 An Underwater World in Porcelain: A Striking Early Doccia Terrine ANDREINA D’AGLIANO 132 Giuseppe Gricci’s ‘Book and Print Seller’ in Porcelain from the Real Fabbrica di Capodimonte ANGELA CARÒLA-PERROTTI 135 Expertise and Fantasy: A Vessel from the Cozzi Manufactory ELISABETTA DAL CARLO 138 Frivolous Dwarfs ALESSANDRO BIANCALANA 141 Roman Souvenirs of a Modern Masterpiece OLIVA RUCELLAI 144 Porcelain and the European Taste for the Exotic SEBASTIAN KUHN Russia 149 Masterpieces of Russian Porcelain – Ceremonial Vases with Picture Painting EKATERINA KHMELNITSKAYA Tributes 155 Magda Grigorian 156 Bernard Dragesco 158 Christophe Perlès 159 Leslie Greene Bowman 160 Linda Roth 161 Rose Kerr 162 Timothy Wilson 163 Diana Edwards 165 Justin Raccanello 167 Kate Malone 168 Timothy Schroder 169 Philippa Glanville 171 Martin P. Levy 172 Barbara Deisroth 174 Victoria Hooton and Marion Nunn 176 Edward Munves 177 Ian Wardropper 178 Alan Salz 179 Robert D. Mowry 180 Erik and Cornelia Thomsen 181 Japan Society Luncheon Tributes: Judy Price Alexandra Munroe and Vishakha N. Desai 182 Emma Jane Haughton Hay and Giles Haughton 184 Lesley J. Kehoe 185 Martha Vietor Glass 187 Georgina Gough 188 David J. Callaghan 190 Anna Somers Cocks, ‘The Art Newspaper’ 191 The Haughton Fairs
