MPRG 2019 Conference and AGM
This year’s conference is being held jointly with the Society for Post-Medieval Archaeology on 5 October at the London Archaeological Archive and Research Centre, Mortimer Wheeler House, 46 Eagle Wharf Road, London N1 7ED
One Thousand Years of Ceramic Innovation
9.30am Arrive and registration
10.00am Welcome and introduction (Jacqui Pearce and Julie Edwards)
10.15am Alexandra van Dongen: Jan van Eyck’s Syrian apothecary jar: the earliest known depiction of Arab ceramics in European art as a marker of global trade
10.45am Gareth Perry, Tom Watson, Caroline Jackson: Purposefully Purple: Understanding the technological transition from late medieval green to purple glazed Humber Wares
11.15am Coffee break and pottery viewing
11.45am Naomi Carver: Ceramic innovation in post-medieval Ulster
12.15pm Tom Wennberg: Faience production in Sweden: a part of 18th-century mercantilism during the Age of Liberty
12.45pm Discussion
1.00pm Lunch and visits to Ceramics and Glass Collection / MPRG AGM
2.15pm Patricia Ferguson: “Printing different Colours on One Plate”: Colour Printing on English Ceramics from 1756
2.45pm John Hudson: Slipware from the ground up
3.15pm Tea break
3.45pm Christopher McHugh: From Stoke to Seto: The adoption of British ceramic manufacturing techniques and styles in twentieth century Japan
4.15pm Julia Rowntree: Clay and hand skills: why do we need them?
4.45pm Discussion (Jacqui Pearce and Julie Edwards)
5.15pm Close
Conference fee: £25. To book please contact Lorraine Mepham: l.mepham@wessexarch.co.uk or see our Facebook page for a booking form