Aileen Dawson

Curator, post-medieval collections (1660-1800)

Europe 1660-1800

Department: Prehistory and Europe

Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8402
Email: adawson@thebritishmuseum.ac.uk

Aileen Dawson is responsible for collections dating from 1660-1800, which include an extensive group of ceramics and glass, enamels, ivories and around ninety pieces of portrait sculpture. Her interests are French and German porcelain, English pottery  (especially eighteenth century Wedgwood and Staffordshire productions) and glass. Aileen is in charge of the Ceramic Study Centre (open by appointment for study of post-medieval ceramics and glass not currently on public view).

Aileen has worked for the Victoria and Albert Museum (Ceramics Deaprtment) and the National Trust, Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire.

Current British Museum projects

Book on eighteenth-century Worcester porcelain for British Museum Press, a selection over around 100 pieces from one of the world’s outstanding collections.

Article on French glass of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.

Previous British Museum projects

Part of curatorial group for the Enlightenment Gallery; participated in the Europe 1400-1800 and the nineteenth century galleries; established the Ceramic Study Centre

External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies

Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London

Chair of the French Porcelain Society

Co-editor of the French Porcelain Society Journal

Board member of the Association for the History of Glass

Publications

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