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Brian Haughton Gallery, 15 Duke Street St. James's, London (2026)

The Brian Haughton Gallery founded in 1964, specialises in the finest English and European Ceramics and Works of Art from the 16th Century through to the present day. The Gallery is situated in the heart of London’s Art World at 15 Duke Street, St. Brian Haughton is one of the world’s leading authorities of porcelain and pottery working in this field. He has founded and organised International Fin

e Art Fairs in London, Dubai and New York including the Legendary International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, founded 36 years ago, subsequently called Art Antiques London which took place in London each June. Museum Directors and Curators from across the World attended and gave Lectures at this prestigious event. The Gallery advises Top international collectors and supplies some of the major Museums across the world. Our stock of English and Continental Porcelain and Pottery covers a wide range of eighteenth century manufactories including: Meissen, St. Cloud, Chantilly, Mennecy and Sevres together with Chelsea, Bow, Limehouse, Lund’s Bristol, Vauxhall, Worcester, Derby and Liverpool porcelain. The Gallery also shows a carefully chosen variety of Contemporary porcelain from leading Studio Potters.

29/06/2022

2022 HAUGHTON INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR || LECTURE SPOTLIGHT
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FOR SULTANS, GRAND DUKES AND GERMAN PRINCES: CHINESE PORCELAIN AS DIPLOMATIC GIFT || Dr. Eva Stroeber.
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Silk and Porcelain were the most important diplomatic gifts the Chinese emperor gave to foreign rulers. Silk is long gone; but porcelain, mysterious, beautiful and priceless, is preserved, sometimes documented.
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This talk focuses on three case studies of Chinese porcelain as diplomatic gifts, and explains the specific role porcelain played in the diplomatic and cultural exchange of China, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Italy and Dresden in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Haughton International Seminar:
“FRAGILE SPLENDOUR: PRESTIGE, POWER AND POLITICS FROM THE MEDICIS TO THE PRESENT DAY”
29th & 30th June 2022.
@ THE BRITISH ACADEMY, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London
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The Gift of Chinese Porcelain from the Court of the Medici, Florence, to the Court of Saxony, Dresden, in the Year 1590. Porcelain Collection, Dresden, Germany.
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28/06/2022

2022 HAUGHTON INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR || LECTURE SPOTLIGHT
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THOMAS JEFFERSON AT MONTICELLO: PRESTIGE, POWER AND THE “PECULIAR INSTITUTION” OF SLAVERY || Leslie Greene Bowman, President, Thomas Jefferson Foundation.
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Leslie Greene Bowman will discuss Thomas Jefferson’s commitment to the arts as central to his advancement of a fledgling United States, and as a means by which he advanced power and prestige while relying upon and yet deploring the “peculiar institution” of slavery. Bowman will excerpt images and ideas from a book she has just produced with Rizzoli, entitled Thomas Jefferson at Monticello: Architecture, Landscape, Collections, Books, Food, Wine.
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Haughton International Seminar:
“FRAGILE SPLENDOUR: PRESTIGE, POWER AND POLITICS FROM THE MEDICIS TO THE PRESENT DAY”
29th & 30th June 2022.
@ THE BRITISH ACADEMY, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London
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Information at WWW.HAUGHTON.COM 👆link in bio👆
Booking in advance essential due to limited numbers.
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Bust of Thomas Jefferson, made by Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741 - 1828); patinated plaster; France 1789; Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello, gift of the Gilder Lehrman Collection.
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27/06/2022

2022 HAUGHTON INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR || LECTURE SPOTLIGHT
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POLISHING THE CROWN – THE INFLUENCE OF ARTISTS AND SCHOLARS ON ROYAL BERLIN PORCELAIN ORDERS || Dr. Samuel Wittwer, director of Palaces and Collections at the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation Berlin-Brandenburg.
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In the representation of the Prussian monarchs Berlin porcelain played quite a role. Since the foundation of KPM in 1763 vases and other decorative objects were displayed in significant places at the royal palaces to help in proclaiming the king’s glory. On the table, services had to convince guests of the royal taste and widely observed state gifts to other courts served as ambassadors of power — in a highly sophisticated atmosphere of nuances.
What a perfect trap for a king to make a fool of himself, if these porcelains turned out to be slightly off-key and missing the intended allusion! But who were the advisers to preserve the crown from ridiculousness? And how were they involved? This lecture shows some outstanding examples and the story of their genesis.
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Haughton International Seminar:
“FRAGILE SPLENDOUR: PRESTIGE, POWER AND POLITICS FROM THE MEDICIS TO THE PRESENT DAY”
29th & 30th June 2022.
@ THE BRITISH ACADEMY, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London
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Information at WWW.HAUGHTON.COM 👆link in bio👆
Booking in advance essential due to limited numbers.
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Three figures from the surtout of the KPM service for Catherine the Great of Russia, a gift of Frederick the Great of Prussia in 1772 (KPM-Porzellansammlung des Landes Berlin).
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24/06/2022

2022 HAUGHTON INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR || LECTURE PROGRAMME
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FACE TO FACE: DAME ROSALIND SAVILL IN CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN HAUGHTON
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Brian Haughton was already a successful dealer when in 1982 he launched the International Ceramics Fair and Seminar, and today we celebrate his achievement over forty years. He would transform the world of the ceramics dealer, collector, curator and scholar by bringing together in one place each June a new, radical and magical combination of some of the best dealers in the world, strict vetting procedures, academic lectures given by an international range of experts, and a sense of glamour, fun and camaraderie.

This year’s Face to Face Conversation with Dame Rosalind Savill will explore how Brian developed such a special vision, how he and his wife, Anna, delivered it year after year, what impact it has had on the decorative arts in recent generations, and how they organised annually four international Art & Antique Fairs in New York, one in Dubai & Art Antiques London.
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Professor Dame Rosalind Savill, DBE, FBA, FSA, became Director of the Wallace Collection in 1992 and retired in 2011. She is a specialist in French eighteenth-century decorative arts, especially Sèvres porcelain, and her first major publication, The Wallace Collection: Catalogue of Sèvres Porcelain, 3 vols, 1988, received the National Art-Collection Fund prize for Scholarship in 1990. She won the European Woman of Achievement Award (Arts and Media), and was appointed an Officier dans L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France, in 2014. She has been a member of the Conseil d’Administration at Sèvres Cité de la Céramique, is President of the French Porcelain Society, and on the Academic Committee of the Rothschild Foundation at Waddesdon Manor. In 2021 she published Everyday Rococo: Madame de Pompadour and Sèvres Porcelain, a 2-volume work to celebrate Madame de Pompadour’s 300th birthday.
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2022 Haughton International Seminar:
“FRAGILE SPLENDOUR: PRESTIGE, POWER AND POLITICS FROM THE MEDICIS TO THE PRESENT DAY”
29 & 30 JUNE 2022
@ THE BRITISH ACADEMY, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London
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Booking in advance essential

15/06/2022

2022 HAUGHTON INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR || LECTURE SPOTLIGHT
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ATTRIBUTES OF SPLENDOUR: JEWELS AND THE PROJECTION OF POWER IN ROYAL INDIA || Dr Amin Jaffer.
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Whether an emperor portrayed in a Mughal miniature or a maharaja depicting in a Victorian studio photograph, rulers in India were typically characterised by the abundance of jewels they wore. The proliferation of precious stones was not only a reflection of wealth – and therefore authority – but also an evocation of the cosmic power of certain gemstones by virtue of their association with planetary forces. In a survey of Indian kingship from ancient times to the early modern period, Amin Jaffer will explore the importance attributed to gems in the articulation of power, drawing on ancient treatises about the power of precious stones, court memoirs and contemporary accounts.
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Haughton International Seminar:
“FRAGILE SPLENDOUR: PRESTIGE, POWER AND POLITICS FROM THE MEDICIS TO THE PRESENT DAY”
29th & 30th June 2022.
@ THE BRITISH ACADEMY, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London
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Information at WWW.HAUGHTON.COM 👆link in bio👆
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The Emperor Shah Jahan Standing on a Globe, c. 1618-9.
Detached album folio; recto: inscriptions in Persian black nasta'liq script.
Artist: Inscribed (later) to Hashim.
Collection: Freer Gallery of Art.
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24/05/2022

2022 Haughton International Seminar || LECTURE SPOTLIGHT
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The Medici and maiolica in the time of the Florentine Republic || Professor Timothy Wilson.
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The period covered by this talk covers the golden age of Renaissance art and culture in Florence, from the rise to political dominance of the Medici family in the person of Cosimo "il vecchio" in 1434 to the appointment of Alessandro de' Medici as first Duke of Florence in 1532. Successive members of the Medici family, notably Lorenzo "il magnifico" were personally interested in ceramics. The most brilliant factory associated with the Medici was at their villa of Cafaggiolo, north of Florence; while the town of Montelupo, on the Arno, became one of the most productive of all commercial maiolica centres..
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Seminar:
“FRAGILE SPLENDOUR: PRESTIGE, POWER AND POLITICS FROM THE MEDICIS TO THE PRESENT DAY”
29th & 30th June 2022.
@ THE BRITISH ACADEMY, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London
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Information at WWW.HAUGHTON.COM 👆link in bio👆
Booking in advance essential due to limited numbers.
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Image: Vase with the arms of Medici and Orsini. Montelupo, c1480-90. Detroit Institute of Arts.
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Address

15 Duke Street St. James's
London
SW1Y6DB

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm

Telephone

+442073896550

Website

http://haughtongallery.co.uk/

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