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

🏢 Victoria and Albert Museum • 📍 Cromwell, England • 🕒 2 days ago

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Cromwell, England

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68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)

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1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard

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Position Overview & Specifications

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

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