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The Cumming Ceramic Research Foundation
was
a non-profit Canadian federally-incorporated charitable trust, established
in 1991 to encourage and support the expansion of knowledge about
ceramics, with emphasis on the production of British and European
factories dating from the late-18th, 19th and early 20th centuries.Between
1993 and 2013 it awarded an annual international scholarship and
research grants for work in the field. A list of recipients follows.
The Foundation's charter was surrendered in 2013 and scholarships and
grants are no longer being awarded. However, programs and public
education at the Gardiner Museum continue to be funded through other
means.
The Cumming Collection
This is a study Collection,
based exclusively on examples from the Minton factory, designed to
show the development of English ceramics across the 19th century,
on into the early decades of the 20th century. The Cumming Collection
at the Gardiner Museum can be seen on the Museum's website at www.gardinermuseum.on.ca
2013
The Scholarship was awarded to Emma O'Toole,
a PHD candidate at the National College of Art $ Design in Ireland.
She will carry out a four-week research study into the Dr. Theodore
Drake Collection held in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Canada.
It is one of the largest and most inclusive collections of eighteenth
and nineteenth-century infant ceramic feeding paraphernalia.
With this award, her intended research will seek to highlight the
early modern production and use of domestic infantile ceramic wares, a
subject that has hitherto been given little attention.
2012
The Scholarship was not awarded in 2012,
however the Board awarded a special research grant to Dr. Bruce Pynn
for continuing research. Dr. Pynn has been collecting and researching
transfer printed ceramic advertising pot lids, often with stunning
pictorials, for over ten years. The new use of ceramic containers in
the 1840's to early 1900's, and the wider use of toothpaste by the
general public, was a major development in Victorian oral hygiene. Dr.
Pynn has achieved international recognition for his work, and he has
donated a number of antique toothpaste pot lids to the Faculty of
Dentistry museum at the University of Toronto.
2011
The Scholarship was awarded to J. Victor Owen to chemically analyze
porcelain wares produced by John and Ralph Baddley and William
Littler.
The Board also awarded a special grant to Charlotte A.
Jacob-Hanson for research regarding "An Italianate Service: the
Worcester 'Grubbe' landscape plates painted in puce camaien",
especially their Giles connections and the print sources used for
their decoration.
2010 The Scholarship was
awarded to Dr. Anne Anderson to research "Chelsea Mania: the heyday of
collecting Chelsea Gold Anchor Period".
The Board also awarded
a special grant to Dr. Paul Arthur for research on French Art Nouveau
ceramics.
2009 No scholarship or grants
were awarded in 2009.
2008 The Scholarship
was awarded to Margaret Carney, Ph.D. of Toledo, Ohio, U.S.A. Dr.
Carney will carry out research into Worcester's Sabrina Ware and the
Binns men who were involved at Worcester and in the U.S.A. She will
explore the place of Sabrina Ware within the 19th century ceramic
world - between industrial mass production and hand-made one-of-a-kind
Art Pottery.
A special grant was awarded to Dr. Jennifer Lewis
to assist her research concerning "Gaudy Welsh China: history,
technology, design and decoration".
2007 The
Scholarship was awarded to Anne Anderson BA PhD FSA. of Horton Heath,
Hampshire, U.K. Dr. Anderson aims to assess the impact of patterns of
antique china collecting on Victorian ceramic production, to determine
the relationship between historic ceramic types and modern
manufacture.
2006 No scholarship or grants were awarded in 2006.
2005 The 2005 Scholarship was awarded to Dr. and Mrs.
W.H.R. Ramsay of Buninyong, Victoria, Australia who are conducting
research into the recipe changes which occurred at the Bow porcelain
manufactory. The goal of this work is to produce an integrated
classification of Bow porcelain which can be used by collectors,
curators and dealers.
2004 The Scholarship was not awarded in 2004 but
important research grants were given to Richard D. Burt, Diana Connell
and Sue Taylor. Mr. Burt will research the origins of the Worcester
Porcelain factory, specifically the socio-economic and political
motives of the original fifteen partners. Ms. Connell, who was
awarded the 2003 Scholarship, will continue her study of Scottish
ceramics, including some fifty factories in the West of Scotland.
Ms. Taylor will intensify her research in electrical porcelain which
played a major role in the 19th century technological developments,
including telegraphy and electrical power production and distribution.
2003 The 2003 Scholarship was awarded to Ms. Diana
Connell of Glasgow, Scotland. Ms. Connell will conduct
comprehensive research into the background and history of transfer
printing in Scotland and its connection with other centres like
Staffordshire. Engravings will be studied and engravers working in
Scotland will be identified. She will examine the products of a
substantial number of pot houses across Scotland; patterns will be
explored, as well as marks and back stamps used by various factories.
2002 The 2002 Scholarship was awarded to Ms. Aisling
Molloy, of County Clare, Ireland, to support her research in Canada
concerning the Irish ceramic designer, Frederick Vodrey (1845-97), and
the Vodrian pottery. The Foundation also provided financial
support to Mr. Gregory Freear of Merseyside, England, for
pre-publication research into the life of Thomas Lakin and a
reproduction of his recipe book.
2001 The
Scholarship was not awarded in 2001. A grant was awarded to Mr.
Peter Goodfellow to support his research of “The Vine Pottery”, Birks
Rawlins & Co., and the Birks family as modellers, sculptors, and
pottery artists within the North Staffordshire ceramic industry.
The Foundation also provided financial support to Ms. Helen Hallesy’s
research into the trade between Cuba and Wales in the early nineteenth
century. The transport of copper ore from Cuba is well documented, but
the exchange of large quantities of Swansea pottery in return has
remained unknown.
2000 The 2000 Scholarship was
awarded to Leslie E. Gerhauser. Ms. Gerhauser’s research concerns
English delftwares imported into and utilized in the New York area in
the pre-revolutionary era between 1700 and 1775. A research grant
was awarded to Ms. Aileen Dawson, of London, England, to support her
seminal work in preparing a thematic overview of the porcelain
industry in France from its inception in the late 17th century until
the beginning of the 19th century. This is intended to be the first
synthesis in English of the subject, aside from Ms. Dawson’s Catalogue
of French Porcelain in the British Museum. The Foundation also
provided financial support to Diane and Roger Oddy for their project
to record, photograph and identify the large quantity of original 18th
and early 19th century Derby and Chelsea-Derby master figure models
and moulds in the archives of the Spode factory at Stoke-on-Trent,
Staffordshire. The catalogue will provide an invaluable record of the
Derby factory’s figure production for historians, curators and
collectors.
1999 The 1999 Scholarship was awarded to
Lynn F. Pearson, Ph.D. of Newcastle upon Tyne, England. In
collaboration with the Tiles and Architectural Ceramics Society he was
researching the design and use of Minton encaustic tiles in churches
in Staffordshire, England. This study is part of a larger project
which involves the location, survey and analysis of the principal
British tile and architectural ceramic sites in Great Britain. The
Foundation also awarded a special research grant to Anthony T. Evans
to explore the role of Arthur Minton in early 19th century English
ceramics. A London “chinaman”, he has remained in the shadow of his
more famous brother, Thomas, who founded the Minton pottery at
Stoke-on-Trent. This research would add a further dimension to
established knowledge about the Minton family and its place in English
ceramic history.
1998 The 1998 Scholarship was
awarded to Ronald W. Fuchs II, M.A., who was researching the use of
English and Dutch tin-glazed earthenware fireplace tiles in the
eighteenth century in the Greater Delaware Valley; an area
encompassing Philadelphia, Southeastern Pennsylvania, Delaware, and
Southern New Jersey. The Foundation also awarded a special
continuing support grant to Stephen G. Harrison, MA, Assistant Curator
of Decorative Arts, Dallas Museum of Art. In preparation for a
traveling exhibition, China and Glass in America, 1880-1980, and the
publication of a scholarly book by the same title, both in 1999. Mr.
Harrison was carrying out research covering the export of British
ceramics to the United States during this period.
1997
The 1997 Scholarship was awarded to Dr. Charles L. Venable, Associate
Director and Curator of Decorative Arts at the Dallas Museum of Art.
In preparation for a traveling exhibition “China and Glass in America
1880-1980", and the publication of a scholarly book by the same title,
both in 1999, Dr. Venable was carrying out research covering the
export of British ceramics to the United States during this period.
1996 The 1996 Scholarship was awarded to Mr. Conrad
Biernacki of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. In preparation for
publication of an illustrated catalogue of 19th century Copeland
picture tiles, Mr. Biernacki carried out research covering a wide
variety and styles of 19th-century tiles produced by this factory.
1995 The 1995 Scholarship was awarded to Bernard Bumpus
of London, England. Mr. Bumpus is well-known in Museum and collecting
circles for his serious studies of the pate-sur-pate technique, and
regarding ceramic decorators whose work has linked the artistic
endeavours of England, France and North America. At the time, Mr.
Bumpus was preparing a new monograph covering the many facets of the
career of Marc Louis Solon, especially his work at Sevres and Minton.
1994 The 1994 Scholarship was awarded to Oliver
Fairclough of Cardiff, Wales. Mr. Fairclough was Assistant Keeper
(Applied Art), Department of Art, National Museum of Wales. In
preparation for publication, by the National Museum of Wales, of a new
catalogue covering Swansea and Nantgarw porcelain (1913-26) regarding
examples of these 19th century Welsh porcelains in other collections
in the United Kingdom and North America. The Board has also awarded
a continuing support scholarship to Julie Saunders of Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, for post-graduate research concerning the bone china
dessert service commissioned from Minton by Lord William Fitzwilliam
Milton. Painted with Canadian scenes, sketched and photographed by Dr.
Walter Butler Cheadle, the service commemorated the expedition which
Lord Milton led, in 1862-63, to find a route for the North-West
Passage.
1993 The 1993 Scholarship was awarded to
Louise Taylor of Birmingham to pursue her research further at the
Ph.D. level, at Staffordshire University, covering the role of foreign
artists at Minton in the second half of the 19th century, and their
impact on British ceramic manufacture. She was to examine the links
between Minton and Sevres, and the situation after the period of Leon
Arnoux, not only at Minton but also at other leading English
factories. In recognition of Minton’s bicentenary in 1993, the
Board also awarded a special scholarship to Julie Saunders of Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, for postgraduate research concerning the bone china
dessert service commissioned from Minton by Lord William Fitzwilliam
Milton. Painted with Canadian scenes, sketched and photographed by Dr.
Walter Butler Cheadle, the service commemorated the expedition which
Lord Milton lead, in 1862-63, to find a route westward through the
Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast.
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