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GREENWICH, CONN. — A lecture, “Cargo and Adventure: Rhode Island and the China Trade 1700–1900,” a joint event with the Connecticut Ceramics Study Circle, will be presented by the Greenwich Antiques Society on Monday, January 10, at the Bruce Museum.

Speaker Thomas Mitchie will present a 1:15 pm lecture. Tea will follow.

The lucrative China Trade made pre-Revolutionary Providence, R.I., the principal port city in New England. By means of porcelain, furniture, houses, portraits and diary references Mitchie will review pre-Revolution trade between Newport and Surinam and the rise of Providence as a principal port. Mitchie will use selected objects from the collection of Anne Allen Ives to illustrate his lecture.

Mitchie is curator of decorative arts at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, where he has worked since 1984. Mitchie is a graduate of Williams College and holds a degree from Yale University in the history of art. He has published articles on historical American furniture, silver, wallpaper, architectural patterns, books and the China Trade. He has served on the boards of the Redwood Library and Athenaeum, the Decorative Arts Trust and the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities.

Bruce Museum is at One Museum Drive. For information, 203-862-8906 or 203-869-6437.