Set for the Season: Ceramics and Celebration at Boscobel

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Step into the holiday season with a special, members-only evening exploring how ceramics brought beauty, refinement, and festive spirit to early 19th-century celebrations. Join Boscobel’s curatorial team inside the historic house to discover how tableware, decorative ceramics, and design traditions reflected the artistry and etiquette of the decades after the American Revolution. Surrounded by the glow of Boscobel’s period interiors styled for the holiday, discover how fine ceramics, festive décor, and elegant entertaining brought cheer to the winter months.

Part of our Curator’s Choice series, offered exclusively to members, this event provides an intimate look into rare objects in Boscobel’s collection and the enduring fascination with beautiful ceramics.

This event is open to Members at the Partner Level ($150) and above. Renew or upgrade your membership today!

Riley Richards is Boscobel’s Assistant Curator and a historian of American decorative arts and material culture. She supports the interpretation, care, and growth of Boscobel’s historic collection and period rooms. She graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in Art History and is a graduate of the Winterthur Program in American Material Culture. Riley formerly served as the Tiffany & Co. Foundation Curatorial Intern in American Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she assisted with the exhibition Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore and Tiffany & Co. and curated rotations of design drawings from Louis C. Tiffany and Tiffany Studios. Riley’s current research interests revolve around the making, use, and meaning of nineteenth century ceramics and glass in local communities.