Online: The History of Porcelain, Part I with Dr. Pam Sachant

This two-part talk is about the history of porcelain from its origins in China approximately 2,000 years ago; its spread throughout East Asia; its introduction to the European market and the subsequent “race” in the late seventeenth century to discover how to make porcelain in various courts of Europe; the development of the import market for porcelain in colonial and early United States; and the rise of porcelain factories throughout continental Europe and Great Britain in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This first session will focus on the discovery to distinction of porcelain in China and East Asia.

Pam Sachant has a Ph.D. in Art History from the University of Delaware and was Head of the Department of Visual Arts at the University of North Georgia. An experienced lecturer, Sachant has presented at several conferences, universities, and museums, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. As an academic writer, Sachant is featured in the University Press of North Georgia and in art history publications including the Archives of American Art Journal.

The History of Porcelain, Part II: Mastery and Mania in Europe and the Americas will take place online on March 1st at 1pm.

Please register for both sessions using Zoom:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckcuCtrj4jGNNyebC9VXcFWYwR3zYzD1uj