The Ceramics Series – Delhom Service League: “Fifty Years of Collecting Southern Ceramics: MESDA and the Mariner Collection”. Robert A. Leath
Founded in 1965, the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts opened to the public with a small, but random collection of early southern ceramics. Read More
Ceramics Series:Delhom Service League: The Ceramics Series Highlights from the 18th Century British Ceramics Collection Hands-on Study Session
Join us as we highlight pieces from our collection of 18th century British ceramics.
Delhom Service League: The Ceramics Series – Rediscovering Classical Antiquity…and Beyond: Design Sources for Eighteenth-Century Basalt Sculpture, Brian Gallagher, Curator of Decorative Arts at The Mint Museum
Delhom Service League: The Ceramics Series –
Rediscovering Classical Antiquity…and Beyond: Read More
Delhom Service League: The Ceramics Series – Ms. Mellanay Delhom and Delhom Service League, Film and Panel Discussion
Join the Delhom Service League for a screening of “Ms. Mellanay Delhom, 90 years”. Read More
Delhom Service League: Panel Discussion “So you want to be a Potter”
In celebration of #GlobalClayDay and National Clay Week Delhom Service League is excited to welcome our talented group of potters who will discuss their work, and how they got to where they are – Danielle Carelock, Adrienne Dellinger, Ron Philbeck and Amy Sanders. Read More
Protected: COPY – Classic Black: The Basalt Sculpture of Wedgwood and His Contemporaries
Mini-Masters Workshop: Fluffy Puppy Painting- Thursday Afternoon
SOLD OUT! Ages 3-5, accompanied by an adult companion. Investigate art in a museum gallery, and make a unique creation to take home!Read More
Mini-Masters Workshops- Wednesday Morning Series
SOLD OUT! Ages 3-5, accompanied by an adult companion. Investigate art in a museum gallery, and make a unique creation! Series of 4 classes.Read More
Delhom Service League: Exchanges: Garth Clark and the North Carolina Pottery Community
Matt Jones, potterRead More
Mint Museum to Publish New Ceramics Catalogue
Delhom Gallery at Mint Museum Randolph to remain closed until May 2 for curatorial research
The Mint Museum, in collaboration with D. Giles Limited of London, is producing an illustrated catalogue showcasing its renowned collection of eighteenth-century British ceramics. And to facilitate research for the catalogue, the museum is closing its historic Delhom Gallery at Mint Museum Randolph through May 2 to enable curatorial research of ceramics items from the gallery, many of which have not been removed from their glass-enclosed cases in more than 30 years.
The catalogue is being generously funded by the Delhom Service League, the Mint’s affiliate group supporting the ceramics collections of the museum. Additional photography for the project is made possible through a digitization grant that the museum received from the National Endowment for the Arts in 2013.
The catalogue will be released in fall 2015, timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the museum’s purchase of the Delhom Collection of British and European ceramics. The catalogue will feature 200 objects, selected because of their rarity, craftsmanship, or as important examples of particular methods of production or decoration. It will include contributions by Brian Gallagher and Barbara Perry, the Mint’s current and former curators of Decorative Arts, as well as noted ceramics scholars Diana Edwards, Patricia Halfpenny, Maurice Hillis, and Letitia Roberts.
The Delhom Gallery at Mint Museum Randolph closed to the public and most museum staff effective March 31 to enable de-installation of British ceramics. Many of those objects were put in place with the construction of that portion of the museum, which was added on to the original Mint building in 1983. The detailed study of these objects will later contribute to a plan to re-install the gallery and add more recent acquisitions from the Mint’s permanent collection.
The Mint’s collection of British pottery and ceramics numbers over 2,000 items, and includes one of the most in-depth collections of Staffordshire pottery to be found in the United States. It also holds representative examples of ceramics from most of the major eighteenth-century porcelain factories, including Chelsea, Bow, Longton Hall, Bristol, and others.
For questions about the closure of the Delhom Gallery, please contact Leigh Dyer at 704.337.2009 or leigh.dyer@mintmuseum.org.
Above image: Pear-Shaped Sugar Bowl and Teapot, circa 1760, lead-glazed earthenware. Staffordshire, England. Delhom Collection.
ADDITIONAL MINT MUSEUM OPERATIONAL NOTE
In response to strong shopper demand for merchandise associated with two special exhibitions on view at Mint Museum Uptown at Levine Center for the Arts, 500 South Tryon Street, the Mint Museum Uptown Shop is expanding its hours of operation. Effective April 1, the shop has now added Tuesdays from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. to its normal Wednesday-Sunday hours of operation. (The museum galleries remain closed on Mondays, Tuesdays, and major holidays). Mint Museum Uptown Shop hours are now 11 a.m.-6 p.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays-Saturdays; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Wednesdays; and 1-5 p.m. Sundays. For more information or recommendations of merchandise for Mother’s Day or other seasonal stories, please contact Shop Manager Sandy Fisher at sandy.fisher@mintmuseum.org or 704.337.2038.
The change was prompted by the opening of two special exhibitions at Mint Museum Uptown: Allure of Flowers: Botanical Motifs in Craft, Design, & Fashion, on view through August 10, 2014; and Women of Vision: National Geographic Photographers on Assignment, on view through July 20, 2014. A variety of merchandise related to both exhibitions, as well as other temporary exhibitions and permanent collections, is available in the shop. More information available at mintmuseum.org/visit/shop.