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CHINA STUDENTS’ CLUB LECTURE APRIL 24 DIANA EDWARDS

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BOSTON, MASS. — Diana Edwards, ceramic historian and former president of the China Students’ Club of Boston, will deliver an illustrated lecture titled “The Influence of Salt Glazed Stoneware on English Creamware Design” at the China Students’ Club meeting Thursday, April 24, at 1 pm. The meeting will be held at The College Club, 44 Commonwealth Avenue. Refreshments will precede the meeting, beginning at 12:30.

Edwards was guest curator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts from 1988 to 2000 and currently works as a consultant in the American arts department of the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 2003 she guest curated an exhibition at Johns Hopkins University titled “Taste and Table” and is the author of several books on and more than 20 articles Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century ceramics. Currently, she is working on a book on English ceramics for the American market.

Edwards’ presentation will address how creamware in its earliest manifestations was deeply indebted to the more highly developed salt glaze industry for source of design. As creamware developed into everyman’s taste and table and salt glaze became less popular, the ascendancy reversed with some salt glazed forms miming creamware in a last gasp effort to survive.

The China Students’ Club welcomes guests and potential new members. The lectures are free for members; nonmembers and guests, $3.

For additional information, www.chinastudentsclub.org or 413-775-7206.