{"id":8487,"date":"2014-04-05T13:09:06","date_gmt":"2014-04-05T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrewbaseman.com\/blog\/?p=8487"},"modified":"2014-04-06T15:49:07","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T19:49:07","slug":"english-ceramic-circle-lecture-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/?p=8487","title":{"rendered":"English Ceramic Circle lecture, London"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to give a talk and show examples from my collection this past Thursday, April 3rd,\u00a0at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishceramiccircle.org.uk\/index3.asp?category=10\">English Ceramic Circle<\/a> (ECC) at Bonhams in Knightsbridge, London. The ECC was founded in 1927 and is &#8220;the oldest society\u00a0dedicated to the study of British ceramics and enamels.&#8221;\u00a0Thankfully, the lecture was well attended and I enjoyed meeting many members, as well as viewing pieces from their own collections, that they were encouraged to bring in.<\/p>\n<p>I was introduced by ECC president Roger Massey, who explained to the crowd that he was made aware of my blog a few years ago by a ceramics dealer. He was told about a &#8220;mad American&#8221; (crazy, not angry, I assume) who collects antiques with early repairs and that he should have a look. Roger apologized to me about the remark but I rather like it! \u00a0After the talk I was invited to dinner and chatted with other members, including\u00a0Nicholas Panes, Honorary Treasurer.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you ECC for your warm welcome, and a special thanks to Stephen McManus who extended the invitation.\u00a0I look forward to becoming a member of your marvelous society.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ecc1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ecc1\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ecc1.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ecc3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8490\" alt=\"ecc3\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ecc3.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ecc3.jpg 400w, http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ecc3-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photos by Mark Randall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was invited to give a talk and show examples from my collection this past Thursday, April 3rd,\u00a0at the English Ceramic Circle (ECC) at Bonhams in Knightsbridge, London. The ECC was founded in 1927 and is &#8220;the oldest society\u00a0dedicated to the study of British ceramics and enamels.&#8221;\u00a0Thankfully, the lecture was well attended and I enjoyed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anecdotal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8487"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8503,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8487\/revisions\/8503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.andrewbaseman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}