MEETINGS
NCS Programme Spring 2024
We look forward to seeing you at our monthly meetings see the programme below
We would appreciate it if members would register for
any meetings they wish to attend using the button below
Spring-Summer meetings 2024
Saturday 25 May
at
World of Wedgwood
Barlaston, Stoke-on-Trent ST12 9ER
Refreshments from 10.45am.
11.15 am Morning Presentations
“The Ark”: Wedgwood and European Refugees, 1933-1945
Michael Ruddy,
Assistant Curator, V&A Wedgwood Collection
Wedgwood and Sculpture in the 18th Century:
“I suppose those at the Academy are less hacken’d & better in General
than the Plaster Shop can furnish us with”
Gaye Blake-Roberts
2.00 pm Afternoon sessions
AGM, followed by members’ pots ‘show & tell’ session.
Terracotta bust of Ulla Goodman, a German-Jewish refugee who became a designer at Wedgwood in the 1950s
Bust of Mercury. Black basalt. Modelled by John Flaxan (1755-1826).
V&A / Wedgwood Collection, Barlaston.
Thursday 6 June
Summer study day and exhibition visit
Lancaster Delftware at The Maritime Museum, Lancaster.
Presentations by Matthew Hobson, co-author of Lancaster delftware: an 18th-century pottery with Barbara Blenkinship and Amber Turner, Curator of Applied Art, Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.
There is a charge for this visit. Please use the registration button above to contact the Secretary, Deb Skinner for full details and to register your interest.
Tuesday 2 July Summer visit:
Country House Collections in Cheshire
We have rescheduled last year’s postpones visit to Tatton Park and added a second, lesser-known venue nearby, Tabley House. Lavish porcelain dinner services and ornamental wares feature in this visit, along with the opportunity to take a closer look at some rare treasurers that feature in historic house and family collections. There is a charge for this visit; some refreshments are included. Please use the registration above to contact the Secretary, Deb Skinner for full details.