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FRIDAY APRIL 2, 2021 • VOL. 51, NO. 13
Potteries Of Trenton Society Reschedules Annual Lecture For April 17 Webinar’s Focus Is Trenton’s Victorian Majolica Makers The Potteries of Trenton Society is pleased to partner with the Bard Graduate Center and the New Jersey State Museum to present its annual ceramics history lecture. Dr. Laura Microulis, research curator at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City, will discuss “Trenton’s Majolica Mania” for the meeting to be held on Saturday, April 17, beginning at 1:30 p.m. The lecture will be a virtual webinar and is free and open to the public, but reservations are required. To learn more, visit https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ trentons-majolica-mania-a-virtuallecture-by-dr-laura-microulistickets-145074516785. Colorful and wildly imaginative, the lead-glazed earthenware known as majolica was one of the most significant innovations in 19th-century ceramics. Largely inspired by Renaissance maiolica, majolica proved to be the quintessential modern medium, a material that could be mass-produced into myriad shapes and styles for both
functional and ornamental purposes. Introduced in 1851 by the renowned English firm, Minton & Co., and subsequently made by dozens of other Staffordshire factories, the eccentric designs, boldly molded forms, and richly colored glazes of majolica captured the attention of consumers on both sides of the Atlantic, and the potteries of Trenton, N.J., responded accordingly. In her lecture, which is funded in part by the New Jersey State Museum Foundation, Lucille M. Paris Fund, Microulis will briefly review the global phenomenon of majolica and preview the upcoming “Majolica Mania” exhibition, then explore Trenton’s role in this mania, from the American pottery displays at the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia to the financial demise of the last majolica factory in Trenton in 1897. She will demonstrate the importance of immigrant craftsmen, as well as how new foods and fashions for the table, Aesthetic movement principles, and
The majolica vase by Joseph S. Mayer, Trenton, N.J., was displayed at the World’s Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition, 1884, is 36 inches high and from a private collection. Photograph courtesy Bard Graduate Center.
the widespread interest in botany impacted the design and decoration of the ware. Microulis, a material culture scholar with a specialization in 19th-century decorative arts and design, has been part of the curatorial team behind the forthcoming exhibition and publication, “Majolica Mania: Transatlantic Pottery in England and the United States, 1850–1915,” which will be on view at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City from Sept. 24, 2021, through Jan. 3, 2022. The exhibition then moves to the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Md., from Feb. 26 Laura Microulis, Ph.D., will present the to July 31, 2022. “Majolica lecture “Trenton’s Majolica Mania” on Mania” is the first major Saturday, April 17. public display of this material in nearly four decades. Featuring design history, and material culture. over 350 objects, from domestic The New Jersey State Museum is vessels to monumental pieces a center of cultural, educational, shown at the World’s Fairs, the and scientific engagement and exhibition and accompanying inspires innovation and lifelong three-volume catalog consider the learning through collections, principal designers and manufacturers of the ware, its broad dissemination, and ultimate decline within the social and cultural context of the Victorian era. The Potteries of Trenton Society is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the study and appreciation of Trenton’s ceramic industry by gathering and preserving information related to the industry, sponsor- The plate by Eureka Pottery Company, 1883-84, ing research pro- press-molded earthenware with colorful majolica jects, seminars glazes, 9.6 inches diameter, is from the collection of and conferences, the New Jersey State Museum, museum purchase and promoting CH1981.7. Photograph by Richard Barros. industry-related heritage tourism activities. research, exhibitions and programs Membership is open to all, and infor- in science, history and art. mation about joining is available at Arrangements for this virtual www.potteriesoftrentonsociety.org. event are still underway and will be Bard Graduate Center is a grad- posted on the Potteries of Trenton uate research institute in New York Society website soon; sign up for City. The master’s and doctorate our email list to receive notification degree programs, gallery exhibi- when registration opens. All tions, research initiatives, and pub- cosponsors will have registration lic programs explore new ways of information on their respective thinking about decorative arts, websites.
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Palmer Museum Of Art Acquires Important Work By Grafton Tyler Brown “Hot Springs At Yellowstone” Was Painted In 1889 By Harrisburg-Born Artist The Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State is pleased to announce the purchase of the 1889 painting “Hot Springs at Yellowstone” by the artist Grafton Tyler Brown (1841–1918). Born in Harrisburg, Pa., to free Black parents, Brown went on to become known for his landscape paintings of Western subjects. “Nineteenth-century landscape paintings by African American artists are exceedingly rare,” said Erin M. Coe, director of Continued on page 5
A 1960-61 San Francisco 49ers Jumbo Bobblehead Doll Brings $19,800 Huggins & Scott Sold Unusual 15-Inch Promotional Version A scarce 1960-61 San Francisco 49ers jumbo (15 inches tall) bobblehead doll sold March 11 for $19,800 at Huggins & Scott Auctions. A descendant of the Japanese family that co-owned the distributor, Otagiri Mercantile Continued on page 3
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