Wedgwood Society of Boston

Author: Peggy Kerner

  • Meeting 9/15/2024:

    Annual Bits & Pieces

    The opening event of the WSB 2024-2025 season is the Annual Bits & Pieces, to be held on Sunday, September 15, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. This popular meeting offers members the opportunity to present their latest or favorite Wedgwood object for discussion. This will be held via video conferencing and participants are encouraged to submit in advance a JPG image or two of their presentation pieces  via email to: wsbkerner@gmail.com. Members will receive the ZOOM link a week prior to the meeting. If you are not a WSB member and would like to join, click onto the Become a Member tab above.

  • Meeting 7/12/2024:

    Second Annual Summer Social

    The closing event of the WSB 2023-2024 season is the Second Annual Summer Social, to be held in Westwood, Massachusetts, on Saturday, July 13th. Registration forms will be mailed in June. The program includes a luncheon at a private venue, followed by several collections at a member’s home. If you are not a WSB member and would like to join, click onto the Become a Member  tab above.

    The First Annual Summer Social, 2023

  • 2024–2025 WSB Meeting & Lecture Schedule

    2024-2025 Meeting and Lecture Schedule

    Sunday, September 15, 2024 at 2:00 P.M.  Members’ Participation: “Annual Wedgwood Bits & Pieces”; to be held remotely via Zoom.

    Sunday, November 17, 2024 at 2:00 P.M.  Bryding Adams, Curator Emerita, BMA: “Lucille Stewart Beeson: Wedgwood Collector & Donor Extraordinaire”; to be held via Zoom 

    Sunday, January 12, 2025 at 2:00 P.M.  Woody Johnson, Collector: “All Eyes Were Fixed on the Vases:  A Gift of Wedgwood Jasper for the Emperor of China in 1793”; to be held via Zoom

    Sunday, January 19, 2025 at 2:00 P.M.  (Bonus meeting in conjunction with WSWDC), Wedgwood Curator: “Unpacking the V&A Wedgwood Collection, Part I”; to be held via Zoom

    Sunday, March 16, 2025 at 2:00 P.M.  Ben Miller, Curator Potteries Museum: “Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue”; to be held via Zoom

    Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 2:00 P. M. The Elizabeth Chellis Memorial Lecture: Wedgwood Curator: “Unpacking the V&A Wedgwood Collection, Part II; and “Annual General Meeting”; to be held via Zoom

    Saturday, July 19, 2025, at 12:00 pm.  Members & Guests Participation: “Third Annual Summer Social” to be held at a restaurant, followed by private collection tour, at members’ home in Mystic, CT.

  • Meeting access – 9/15/2024

    Next meeting: Sunday, September 15, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. EDT.

    Annual Bits & Pieces Meeting

    The opening event of the WSB 2024-2025 season is the Annual Bits & Pieces, to be held on Sunday, September 15, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. This popular meeting offers members the opportunity to present their latest or favorite Wedgwood object for discussion. This will be held via video conferencing and participants are encouraged to submit in advance a JPG image or two of their presentation pieces  via email to: wsbkerner@gmail.com.

    Topic: WSB SUNDAY Sept 15 Bits & Pieces Meeting at 2:00 PM EST

    Time: Sep 15, 2024 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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  • NBB 02/07/2024 – Sad news

    Robert Hamilton Wedgwood (1948-2024)

    The Wedgwood community mourns the death of Robert H. Wedgwood, 75, of Palm Springs, California, on February 7, 2024. Bob served as president of the Wedgwood Society of Southern California for many years, was on the boards of the WIS and WSNY, and a long-time member of the WSB and other related societies. He also acted as an advisor to the Wedgwood 250th exhibition in DC. His collecting focused on Wedgwood’s handcrafted wares and artists pieces of the 19th and 20th centuries. Among his many lectures was one on his Wedgwood ancestry from the 15th century. Bob was a retiree of the IRS’s business division in California. He is a native of Andover, Massachusetts, and has strong roots in New England. He is survived by his sister Dawn Forbes of MA and his twin brother William of NH. Bob will be cremated and his ashes interred in the family plot in Connecticut at a later date. RIP.

  • Meeting access – 3/10/2024

    Next meeting: Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. edt.

    Wedgwood Royalty by Aileen Dawson.

    Wedgwood and Royalty

          Please join the WSB video-conference on Sunday, March 10, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. EDT, for a special lecture on “Wedgwood and Royalty” presented by a former department curator at the British Museum and author, Aileen Dawson. It will explore the continuing relationship of the Wedgwood factory to the British royal family from the early days to the present time. Portraits of numerous members of the royal family reflect their popularity and signal significant royal events, while services ordered for tea-drinking, dining, or even for use in the dairy at Windsor all contribute to a fascinating story of the British monarchy and Wedgwood, the most iconic Staffordshire pottery.

    PLEASE NOTE WE CHANGE TO DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME IN BOSTON, ON THIS DAY, SO ALLOW FOR THIS ADJUSTMENT SO YOU WON’T BE DISAPPOINTED.

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  • Meeting access – 1/14/2024

    Next meeting: Sunday, January 14, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. est.

    Shell-Shock: Centuries of Wedgwood’s Shell Fancying by Adele Barnett.

    Adele has been a past president of WSB, the founder of the Wedgwood Society of Washington, D.C., and has served on the boards of many related organizations. She was the creator and editor of the “Capital Wedgwoodian”newsletter, has been published in many journals, and has lectured widely on various Wedgwood topics to audiences within and outside the Wedgwood arena. She curated a number of exhibitions to include “Wedgwood: 250 Years of Innovation and Artistry” at the D.A.R. Museum and published an accompanying catalog. 

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  • Meeting 1/14/2024:

    Shell-Shock: Centuries of Wedgwood’s Shell Fancying

    Some wonder why shell-shaped objects have had a strong presence in the Wedgwood company’s product range for over the last two and a half centuries. It all began with Josiah Wedgwood I himself. His inspiration for creating such specimens in the clay form was his fondness at an early age for natural shells and fossils, amassing a large collection which he displayed in his father’s pottery. 

    Please join the Wedgwood Society of Boston’s video-conference on Sunday, January 14, 2024, at 2:00 p.m. EST, for Adele Ierubino Barnett’s talk on this fascinating topic chronicling the evolution of products since the founding of the Wedgwood company in 1759. Abundant in images, the lecture illustrates the vast array of the brand’s shell shapes and their body types, glazes, decorations, and uses, while providing a brief history of seashell collecting among the aristocracy in the UK.

    Adele has been collecting Wedgwood since 1969 with a focus on blue jasper. It was her husband Alan’s collecting of seashells while in Japan – which led to his collecting Wedgwood’s ceramic versions – that inspired her to research the subject. Adele is a past president of WSB, the founder of the Wedgwood Society of Washington, D.C., and has served on the boards of many related organizations. She was the creator and editor of the “Capital Wedgwoodian” newsletter, has been published in many journals, and has lectured widely on various Wedgwood topics to audiences within and outside the Wedgwood arena. She curated a number of exhibitions to include “Wedgwood: 250 Years of Innovation and Artistry” at the D.A.R. Museum and published an accompanying catalog. 

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  • Highlights of Last Newsletter 9/2023

    September, 2023

    • Recap of Wedgwood and Eleanor Coade lecture by Peggy Kerner
    • Charles III coronation mugs 
    • Rubin auction results part II 
    • Summer Social review

  • Meeting access – 11/12/2023

    Next meeting: Sunday, November 12, 2023 at 2:00 p.m. est.

    ”The Ark” : Wedgwood and European Refugees, 1933-1945 by Michael Ruddy, archives assistant and cataloguer at the V&A Wedgwood Collection, Stoke on Trent, England.

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