Wedgwood China

Some Sources of Wedgwood Designs
By Mary Wadsworth — Many years before his death in 1943, Grenville L. Winthrop decided to leave his art collection to his university, Harvard. His steadfast belief in the training that the Harvard Fine Arts Department gives young people planning to enter teaching and museum work convinced him that his collection could best serve the public in this way. Indeed, few institutions offer comparable opportunity for students to come into intimate contact with original material. From direct experience they learn...

Bowes Curator Howard Coutts on Meissen, Staffordshire, and Sèvres
By Maribeth Keane — I’m the curator of the ceramics bit of the Bowes Museum. It’s a big museum with 30 galleries of which three or four are devoted to ceramics alone. Within Britain, it’s got one of the biggest and most expensive groups for people to see. We have about 5,000 or so pieces in the collection. We’re not sure exactly. It’s all registered, but of course we get tea sets registered under one number, so I think in total it’s about 5,000. I’ve collected both cups and saucers over the years, which...