Lucien Simmons, Vice Chairman; Restitution Department, Sotheby’s, New York

THIS LECTURE IS ON ZOOM ONLY. IT IS HELD IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE CONNECTICUT CERAMICS CIRCLE

PLEASE NOTE DATE: MONDAY MARCH 13TH AND TIME 2PM

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Lucian Simmons, will talk about the fate of many of the great ceramics collections of pre-war Europe.  He will touch on the Meissen collections of Franz and Margarete Oppenheimer and Hermine Feist as well as the encyclopedic collections of Emma Budge and the Rothschild family.  He will also discuss the role ceramics played in philanthropy and connoisseurship in Weimar Germany, giving examples from collections that he has researched.