Where:
The Davis Museum
106 Central Street
Wellesley, MA 02481
Admission:
FREE
Categories:
Art
Event website:
https://www1.wellesley.edu/davismuseum/whats-on/upcoming/node/207736
Nevers in the World is an intimate exhibition of 11 newly-acquired seventeenth- to nineteenth-century French ceramics that were recently donated to the Davis Museum at Wellesley College. The French faience vessels are highly stylized glazed ceramics, created using a tin-glaze technique that originated in the Middle East, likely around Iraq, as a response to the vibrant white porcelain of China. Over time, this technique spread to Egypt, Spain, Italy, and eventually France, where it evolved into a distinctive art form.
The works will be on view from February 7 to June 1, 2025 as part of three new free exhibitions at the Davis Museum, celebrating new acquisitions.
The Nevers in the World exhibition spotlights these beautifully glazed vessels, used mostly for dining tables, and illustrate a cross-cultural migration from their early origins in Iraq to the early iterations of Italian pieces and expanded color palettes and shapes by the French.