Vignette: Chinese Blue and White Porcelain

This event took place on March 2, 2021. See upcoming events in Vero Beach.

<div class='ai1ec-event-avatar alignleft timely'><img src=' /></div><p>Chinese blue and white porcelain was among many Asian sources of inspiration for European and American artists and designers in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Today, these precious Asian ceramic pieces are still avidly collected and enjoy a large popular audience. In the eighteenth century, two regional variations of porcelain--Canton and Nanking (both produced in the port city of Guangzhou)--emerged.</p>
<p>Artists like James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) and <a href=' rel='nofollow'>Louis Comfort Tiffany</a> (1848-1933) admired the ornamentation of these Chinese ceramics and incorporated them into some of their most famous interiors.</p>
<p>This vignette exhibits numerous examples of these in-demand Chinese ceramics ranging from around 1740 to 1890. The works were collected over the course of 40 years by life-long Orlando residents Dr. Benjamin L. and Nancy Abberger and recently donated to the Morse Museum by the Abberger family.<br /><br />Museum hours from November through April are 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Friday; 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and Saturday; and l p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Regular admission is $6 for adults, $5 for seniors, $1 for students, and free for children under 12. All visitors receive free admission from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Fridays from November through April.</p>