BIOGRAPHY - Haughton International Fairs

BIOGRAPHY
Patricia F Ferguson
Since 2003, Patricia Ferguson has been studying the ceramic collections in The National Trust,
and is preparing a publication surveying the patterns of consumption among England’s
aristocracy and gentry over 400 years, to be published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in
British Art, in association with Yale University Press. She was a consulting curator on the
Victoria and Albert Museum’s new ceramic Galleries and previously worked at the George R
Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto, Canada. She has an MA in Chinese ceramics from
the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger
Maureen Cassidy-Geiger is on the faculty of the Cooper-Hewitt Museum/Parsos The New
School (New York) MA Program in the History of Decorative Arts and Design. Curator of back
to back Meissen exhibitions in 2007-2008 at the Bard Graduate Center and the Frick collection,
she was editor and co-author of the catalogues: Fragile Diplomacy: Meissen Porcelain for
European Courts, circa 1710-63 and The Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain, 1710-50.
Maureen lectures and publishes extensively on subjects relating to Dresden court culture and
was a contributor to three publications celebrating the 300th anniversary of the founding of the
Meissen porcelain manufactory in 1710, issued by the Grassimuseum (Liepzig), the Hallwyl
Museum (Stockholm) and the Porzellansammlung (Dresden) She is currently preparing a book
on the Grand Tour. She is also a guide at the Philip Johnson Glass House, a National Trust
property in New Canaan, Connecticut.
Kate Malone
Kate Malone has studios in London and France and has become one of Britain’s most well
known and generous of ceramic artists since graduating from the Royal College of Art London
in 1986. Her work appeals to collectors of all ages and is represented in major international
public collections from Los Angeles and Louisville to Stoke-on-Trent and Sèvres. British public
commissions include Wall of a Thousand Stories, Children Reading room, Brighton Public
Library Sussex, A pot brimming over with water, Herb Garden Fountain for the Geffrye
Museum, London and Tea Pot Clock, The Bental Centre, Kingston-upon-Thames.
Dr Ekaterina Khmelnitskaya
An internationally renown specialist in Russian porcelain and the Imperial porcelain
manufactory in St. Petersburg and the author of 4 monographs and numerous scholarly
publications, Dr Khmelnitskaya has also produced articles and catalogues for the State
Hermitage Museum including” Under Imperial monogram" (catalogue and exhibition of the
masterpieces of the Imperial porcelain factory in The Kremlin Museum, Moscow) and
"Heraldry on Russian porcelain (catalogue and exhibition in the State Hermitage museum,
together with I. Bagdasarova) She is the Curator of Russian Porcelain and Ceramics and holds
an MA in Art History from St Petersburg State University.

Jacqui Pearce
Jacqui Pearce joined the Department of Urban Archaeology of the Museum of London in 1977
and is currently employed as ceramics specialist for Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA),
with a special interest in medieval and later ceramics, clay tobacco pipes and glass. She has
been involved as author with the production of numerous major monographs and articles,
including four parts of an extensive Type-series of London Medieval Pottery, and the first part
of a series on the pottery of London c.1500-1700. A major study on the 16th-century pottery
kilns in Farnborough, Hampshire was published in 2007, as a result of a collaborative project
with Guildford Museum. In 2001 she was accredited as a sessional lecturer with Birkbeck
College, University of London and has since been involved with teaching on the undergraduate
and post-graduate programmes, as well as running post-diploma courses. She is a member of
the Committee of the English Ceramic Circle and frequently lectures in the UK and beyond.
Jacqui has served as Assistant Editor, then Co-Editor of Medieval Ceramics; and was joint
author of the Medieval Pottery Research Group’s “Minimum Standards of Publication of
medieval Pottery”. She is currently Joint Editor of Post-Medieval Archaeology.
Julia Weber
Julia Weber studied art history, archaeology and French literature at the Universities of
Augsburg and Bonn. As an intern at Waddesdon Manor, The Rothschild Collection, she
developed a taste for the applied arts of the 18th century. Her master’s thesis tracing the
competitive exchange of porcelain gifts between the Saxon-Polish and the French court in the
late 1740s was awarded the “Helmut Seling Prize” by the Central Institute of Art History,
Munich. The results of her research were published in the journals Keramos (193/2006) and
Sèvres (16/2007). From 2005 to 2007 she worked as a research assistant at the Museum of Art
and Culture in Dortmund. Since 2008 she has been preparing one volume of the comprehensive
catalogue of the Ernst Schneider Foundation’s Collection of Meissen Porcelain exhibited at
Lustheim Palace near Munich for the Bavarian National Museum. Since 2011 she is the recipient
of an award from the Free State of Bavaria which will enable her to complete her PhD thesis at
the University of Basel with the working title: ‘Original – Copy – Fake. Meissen porcelains after
East Asian models’. Among her recent publications is a contribution to the catalogue of the
jubilee exhibition Triumph of the Blue Swords, 2010, organized by the Dresden Porcelain
Collection that deals with the specific role of Saxon porcelain in early modern European
diplomacy.
Dr Max Tillmann
Dr. Max Tillmann specialises in the production and luxury trade of French Decorative Arts,
particularly on Boulle-furniture, mounted Oriental porcelain and silver. His PhD research
concerned the collecting practices and art patronage of Bavarian Elector Max Emanuel during
his sojourn in the Spanish Netherlands and France between 1692-1715.From 2005-08 he served
as Curatorial Assistant in the Museum Department for State-owned Bavarian Palaces, Munich.
He participated in the organization and cataloguing of several exhibitions, including 1806 – A
Crown for Bavaria. 200th anniversary of the Bavarian kingdom at the Munich Residenz 2006,
The House of Wittelsbach and the Middle Kingdom (Bavarian National Museum, Munich
2009), André Charles Boulle (1642-1732). A new Style for Europe (Museum of Decorative Arts,
Frankfurt 2009) and Baroque Furniture in Boulle Technique (Bavarian National Museum,
spring 2011). He was responsible for the re-furbishment of the princely apartment of the
Badenburg, a Baroque pleasure house in the garden of Nymphenburg Palace (2007-08). He is a
member of the Rudolstädter committee for residence culture whose aim is to research the
cultural-historical aspects of residence palaces and early modern courts.

Audrey Gay-Mazuel
Graduated from the Ecole du Louvre, the University of Paris- Sorbonne in History and Art
History and the Institut National du Patrimoine, Audrey Gay-Mazuel is currently curator of the
Decorative Arts Department at the Fine arts museum in Rouen and head of the Ceramic
museum. In the frame of the festival Normandie impressionniste in 2010, she organized the
exhibition: Atmospheric Enamels, the « impressionnist » ceramic. In charge of the renovation
of the permanent collection of the Ceramic museum, she has introduced pieces of furniture,
silver and glass. The Louis XVI room, on the first floor of the museum, now exhibits a table, set
for dessert with Rouen faience and Normandy glasses, as it would have been at the end of the
18th Century.
John Whitehead
John Whitehead is a specialist in French eighteenth century works of art, with an emphasis on
Sèvres porcelain. He has written a number of article on various aspects of French eighteenth
century arts, as well as three books: “The French Interior in the Eighteenth Century” (1992),
“Sèvres at the time of Louis XV” and “Sèvres at the time of Louis XVI” (both 2010).
Dr Philip Ward-Jackson
Philip Ward-Jackson, now retired from his post as Conway Librarian at the Courtauld Institute,
has researched and written many articles on sculptor immigrants active in Britain during the
19th century. He is now chiefly involved in the National Recording Project of the Public
Monuments and Sculpture Association, whose aim is to record public scupture of all periods
throughout the UK. His own contribution to this project so far has been a volume on The
Public Sculpture of the City of London. A further volume, the first of two to cover “historic” or
central Westminster, is now with the press and should be out by the end of 2011.
John Culme
John Culme joined Sotheby’s after leaving school nearly 50 years ago and has been associated
with the firm’s Silver and Objects of Vertu Department for much of his career since. During
that time he worked in the 1970s at Sotheby’s Belgravia, the innovative saleroom devoted to the
Victorian and early 20th Century periods. As researcher and writer, he also became involved in
a number of celebrity auctions, including The Jewels of the Duchess of Windsor in 1987. Among
his special interests is the history of the silver and jewellery trades in England, particularly
London, a subject upon which he has written several books and articles. His Directory of Gold
& Silversmiths, Jewellers & Allied Traders, 1838-1914 is his best known work.