Talk by Dr Louise Hardiman | Gilt, Glaze and Grand Designs

Gilt, Glaze, and Grand Designs: Russian Porcelain at Dorich House

In 2022, Dorich House Museum was awarded a grant by Art Fund to research porcelain objects in the Dorich House collection. The fifty-one pieces comprise around a quarter of the whole collection and show a wide range of object types and designs from different makers and different eras of Russian imperial history. In recent months consultant art historians Louise Hardiman and Cynthia Coleman Sparke have worked together to assess the works and create a new set of catalogue notes, which will help to inform new museum displays, art historical interpretation, and future collection care. In this talk, Dr Hardiman will give an overview of the collection and highlight some key works and their place in the history of porcelain manufacture in Imperial Russia.

Dr Louise Hardiman MA (London) PhD (Cantab), is an independent art historian specialising in Russian art and the history of British-Russian cultural relations. She has recently worked as a researcher at the University of Oxford and has been awarded grants by the Paul Mellon Centre and the Design History Society for her work on Russian Arts and Crafts and the history of Russian Art in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Her publications include Modernism and the Spiritual in Russian Art: New Perspectives (2017) and Abramtsevo and its Legacies: Neo-National Art, Craft and Design (2019).

Please note that this talk will be conducted in the modelling studio of Dorich House Museum, which is located on the first floor. The museum does not have a lift.

The studio café opens at 11:00am so please arrive in good time and enjoy coffee and cake prior to the talk. There will also be a pop-up shop featuring products from Not My Beautiful House that you can visit before or after the talk.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Dorich House Museum, 67 Kingston Vale, London, United Kingdom