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Wedgwood & The Society of Dilettanti
Wedgwood & The Society of Dilettanti
We are delighted to confirm that the ECC is running a seminar at the V&A Museum on Thursday 20th March, 2025, devoted to Wedgwood and the Society of Dilettanti. Confirmed speakers include:
Charles Sebag-Montefiore – The Society of Dilettanti: Antiquity and Revelry
Catrin Jones - Wedgwood and Hamilton: An Exchange of Ideas
Lucy Lead – ‘Vases was all the cry’: Wedgwood and Vasemania
Robin Emmerson – Wedgwood’s network with the Dilettanti
Gaye Blake-Roberts – Wedgwood and Sir Joseph Banks
Tickets can be booked via the What's On event information page.
An important Wedgwood and Bentley 'encaustic' black basalt plaque circa 1770, courtesy of Bonhams
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The English Ceramic Circle is dedicated to the study of ceramics manufactured, decorated, or used in the British Isles.
The ECC offers these benefits to our members: - free copies of the annual ECC journal, Newsletters and other ceramic volumes
- regular convivial meetings with talks on new research by ceramic experts
- broadening your ceramic knowledge, making new friends and meeting ceramic experts
- online access (with full text-search) to the ECC archives comprising around 700 papers
- handling sessions at museums/public collections and visits to private collections
- exclusive auction preview visits, including Bonhams and Woolley & Wallis
H. & R. Daniel, Sheet of plate designs, 1840-46, E.287-2022, courtesy of the Trustees of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London
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The English Ceramic Circle (or ECC for short) is the oldest society dedicated to the study of British ceramics and enamels.
Members interested in ceramics at all levels of knowledge are always made welcome. Founded in 1927, we aim to advance
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membership embraces collectors, curators, archaeologists, potters, auctioneers, dealers, social historians and all those with an
interest in the history of ceramics made in the British Isles.

Enthusiasts and experts in British pottery, porcelain and enamels.

English Ceramic Circle was founded in 1927.

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