The International Ceramics Fair & Seminar takes place this year from the 12^th-15^th June at      the Park Lane Hotel on Piccadilly, London W1 (open daily: 11am-7pm and last day: 11am-6pm).

Lecture Programme

DR SAMUEL WITTWER
Director of Palaces and Collections at the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation

B3 Friday 13th June, 4.30pm - 5.30pm

Interior Decoration and War Trophies – The Porcelain Table Services of Frederick the Great of Prussia. 

Frederick the Great of Prussia discovered his love for porcelain during the Seven years War (1756-63).  He became interested in the concept of porcelain as part of a decorative scheme within the State rooms. As a result both the Meissen manufactory and the Berlin KPM factory produced more than 30 court services to highlight the splendour of the Prussian Palaces.

R des DANIELA ANTONIN
Assistant Director of the Hetjens-Museum for German ceramics Düsseldorf
Curator of the Schneider Collection in Jaegerhof Manor 

D3  Sunday 15^th June, 4pm – 5pm 

THE MEISSEN PORCELAINS OF THE BAVARIAN ELECTORS – HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE HISTORICAL COLLECTION IN MUNICH 

The porcelain collection of the Bavarian electors Max Emanuel (1662 – 1726), Carl Albrecht (1697–1745, from 1742 Emperor Carl VII.) and Max III. Joseph (1727–1777) from the House of Wittelsbach is one of the oldest collections of this renowned Saxon porcelain in the world. The collection was divided twice and was not subsequently viewed as a whole. Daniela Antonin's 2006 dissertation traces the origins of the Meissen porcelains of the House of Electors, currently housed in the Munich Residence, in the Bavarian National Museum and administered by the Wittelsbach Equalisation fund, and also re-catalogues them. In her presentation, she will discuss selected works from the historic porcelain collection of the House of Wittelsbach