Bonus lecture courtesy of CT Ceramics Circle
Nick Stagliano, Ceramics specialist and Director of Michele Beiny, Inc.
Hanns Weinberg (1900-76) fled Germany in 1938 and settled in London, where in 1945 he opened The Antique Porcelain Company – a large shop in New Bond Street that sold carpets, furniture, sculptures, and predominantly porcelain. He became the most important dealer of antique porcelain in England and America in the second half of the twentieth century, with shops opened in New York in 1957 and in Zurich in 1972. The Antique Porcelain Company sold porcelain to every significant collector and to many important museums, from the Getty to the Met and the Louvre. In addition to porcelain, Weinberg also dealt in Renaissance jewels, gold boxes, Chinese jades, French furniture and more. This richly illustrated lecture will discuss some of the most significant objects that passed through Weinberg’s hands and which today are in some of the greatest collections in the world.
Nick Stagliano is a specialist in eighteenth-century European ceramics and decorative arts. He is Director of Michele Beiny, Inc., one of the world’s preeminent dealers in antique porcelain. Nick graduated from Hamilton College and earned his master’s degree in the history of the decorative arts from the program offered jointly by The New School and the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, where he was a Curatorial Fellow. He is Co-Chairman of the French Porcelain Society and a member of the Board of the Connecticut Ceramics Circle.