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By LINDA BAUER

Published: Apr 07, 2008 12:00 AM

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CHINA STUDENTSâ CLUB LECTURE APRIL 24 DIANA EDWARDS

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BOSTON, MASS. â Diana Edwards, ceramic historian and former president of the China Studentsâ Club of Boston, will deliver an illustrated lecture titled âThe Influence of Salt Glazed Stoneware on English Creamware Designâ at the China Studentsâ Club meeting Thursday, April 24, at 1 pm. The meeting will be held at The College Club, 44 Commonwealth Avenue. Refreshments will precede the meeting, beginning at 12:30.

Edwards was guest curator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts from 1988 to 2000 and currently works as a consultant in the American arts department of the Baltimore Museum of Art. In 2003 she guest curated an exhibition at Johns Hopkins University titled âTaste and Tableâ and is the author of several books on and more than 20 articles Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century ceramics. Currently, she is working on a book on English ceramics for the American market.

Edwardsâ presentation will address how creamware in its earliest manifestations was deeply indebted to the more highly developed salt glaze industry for source of design. As creamware developed into everymanâs taste and table and salt glaze became less popular, the ascendancy reversed with some salt glazed forms miming creamware in a last gasp effort to survive.

The China Studentsâ Club welcomes guests and potential new members. The lectures are free for members; nonmembers and guests, $3.

For additional information, www.chinastudentsclub.org or 413-775-7206.

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