Doctoral Placement – 19th - Century British Ceramic Transfer Prints and Designs

Doctoral Placement – 19th - Century British Ceramic Transfer Prints and Designs Cromwell, England

Victoria and Albert Museum
Full Time Cromwell, England 10.56 - 12.04 GBP Today
Job description

This project is for a PhD student to catalogue a portion of the AAPD’s important collection of 19th-century British ceramic transfer prints and designs. This is a collection of 8,000 prints and designs from Staffordshire ceramic manufactories, an incredibly rich resource for the study of 19th-century transferware ceramics, which has never been catalogued or photographed.

Manufactories include:
  • Ridway, Morley, Wear & Co, Hanley, c. 1836-1842
  • J Meir & Son, Brighton, Tunstall, 1837-1897
  • Morgan [Morgan, Wood & Co?], Burslem, c. 1860-70
  • W Smith [Junior] & Co, Yorkshire, c. 1845-55
Placement candidates will expect to acquire the following skills and knowledge from this placement.
  • Knowledge of 19th-century British ceramics and designs
  • Object-focused research
  • Object-handling skills
  • Cataloguing training
  • Public engagement (blog-writing and scholarly presentations

Possible outputs of the placement

  • c. 700–1000 CMS catalogue records and public access descriptions for the most significant designs
  • Internal record shots of designs uploaded to CMS
  • Transferware project blog entry/social media content about these lesser-known manufactories and their contribution to ceramic design
  • Feature article on the V&A website, which can sit on both the Ceramics and Designs collection webpages
  • Presentations/lectures on their findings to The Transferware Collectors Club and the English Ceramics Circle

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO CAREFULLY READ THE INSTRUCTIONS IN THE ATTACHMENTS FOR HOW TO APPLY

Doctoral Placement – 19th - Century British Ceramic Transfer Prints and Designs
Victoria and Albert Museum

www.vam.ac.uk
London, United Kingdom
Tristram Hunt
$25 to $50 million (USD)
501 to 1000 Employees
Government
Culture & Entertainment
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