331: Carleigh Queenth on the quest for porcelain in 18th-century Europe
Today on the Tales of a Red Clay Rambler Podcast I have an interview with Carleigh Queenth. Through her position as the specialist head of European ceramics and glass at the Christie’s Auction House in New York City, she researches, documents, and facilitates the sale of historical porcelain. In our interview we talk about the sale cycle of an auction house, the European quest for porcelain, and the factory system used for making the first European porcelains. For more information on Carleigh follow her on Instagram at www.instagram.com/breakingisbad.
The images above are examples of Sèvres dinner services. The plates are part of a set given by Duke de Chartres (cousin of Louis XVI and father of King Louis Philippe) to British spy Nathaniel Parker-Forth in the late 1700’s. The other images are of a Breast Bowl and pleasure dairy used by Marie Antoinette at the Rambouillet palace. We talk about this piece and the Sèvres factory in the interview.
On today’s Amaco Community Corkboard we have the Ceramic Arts Reading Group. The group seeks mud artists of all stripes, from the glaze riffraff to the iron rabble, to form a ceramic arts reading group for women and non-cis gender men. This monthly reading group will be dedicated to creative, lively, and intellectually rigorous art theory discussions. The group chooses texts and material that are directly relevant and meaningful to the personal art practices of the members. They encourage you to join them to share and unravel ideas! Plant the metaphorical seed and hatch the allegorical egg! For more information on the reading group, you can contact beanjellyceramics or yucky_nat on Instagram, or write to them at ceramicartsreadinggroup@gmail.com (that's ceramic arts, with an 's').