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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.
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