San Francisco Ceramic Circle

Illustrated Lecture

"Exporting a Culture: the First Chinese Ceramics to Reach the West Coast of the Americas"

by

Sheila Keppel, Potter and Independent Chinese Art Historian

8.00 PM Thursday, 11th September 2008

Florence Gould Theater, Legion of Honor

Lincoln Park, San Francisco

Enter by the west terrace entrance. Doors open from 7.30 PM

SFCC lectures are free with museum paid or FAMSF membership entry

About our speaker:

 Sheila Keppel's background as a potter and later as a graduate student in Chinese Art History with Professor James Cahill at UC Berkeley combined to create a specialty in East Asian ceramics, especially those from China. She has lately been working on shipwrecks and dating, and this spring participated as "porcelain expert" in two expeditions, to the coasts of Baja California and Oregon

About the talk:

The talk takes a cultural approach, touching on the meanings of the blue and white designs both to the Chinese and to the Westerners, and is illustrated with a power point slide show.

Next meeting: Sunday, 16th October 2008. Angela Howard, specialist dealer in Armorial Chinese Export Porcelain, Wiltshire, England. Understanding Heraldry on Chinese Export Porcelain