Charlotte Vignon is currently an independent curator living and working in New York City. From February 2020 until July 2023, she was the director of the department of patrimony and collections at Sèvres et Limoges, Manufacture et Musées nationaux, having under her responsibility the collections of the Musée national de céramique and the archives of the Sèvres Manufactory. For more than ten years, Vignon was curator of decorative arts at the Frick Collection in New York. Beforehand, she held three highly regarded fellowships at American museums: the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Frick Collection, where she was an Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow. Vignon organized several exhibitions at the Frick Collection: Exuberant Grotesques: Renaissance Maiolica from the Fontana Workshop (2009), Turkish Taste at the Court of Marie-Antoinette (2011), White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain (2011), Gold, Jasper, and Carnelian: Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court (2012), Precision and Splendor: Clocks and Watches at The Frick Collection (2013), Pierre Gouthière: Virtuoso Gilder at the French Court (2016), Fired by Passion: Masterpieces of Du Paquier Porcelains from the Sullivan Collection (2017), Masterpieces of French Faience: Selections from the Sidney R. Knafel Collection (2018), and Elective Affinities: Edmund de Waal at The Frick Collection (2019). In addition to writing the catalogues for most of these exhibitions as well as numerous articles and essays on European decorative arts, including sixteenth- to nineteenth-century ceramics, tapestries, furniture, architecture, and the history of the art market and collecting in the United States, Vignon is also the author of Duveen Brothers and the Market for Decorative Arts, 1880−1940 as well as Gouthière’s Candelabras, with Edmund de Waal, both published in 2019.
Charlotte Vignon
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