Lecture: 'The Chinese Scholar Pattern: Style, Merchant Identity, and the English Imagination'

Please join us for this lecture sponsored by the Chipstone Foundation with Sarah Fayen Scarlett on
Thursday, September 29th at 6:15pm
Milwaukee Art Museum, Lubar Auditorium

Before this summer's The Way of the Dragon, MAM's Decorative Arts Gallery featured Enter the Dragon (Winter 2006), which explored the first three decades of the English Chinoiserie style. Curator of that exhibition, Sarah Fayen Scarlett, returns to present research that grew out of that show. Come hear the story of the Chinese Scholar pattern, a simple image of a seated Chinese figure that English potters adopted from Dutch copies of Japanese versions of Chinese Ming porcelain. This tale of seventeenth-century global trade and European fascination with Asia will appear as a full-length article in Chipstone's next issue of Ceramics in America.