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Vanessa Sigalas Editor

Vanessa Sigalas obtained her doctorate in art history at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen in Germany. She works as an independent curator as well as a research fellow for European Decorative Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT. She also serves as the managing editor of the American Ceramic Circle Journal.

Meredith Chilton, C.M., is an independent art historian who lives in Warwickshire, UK. She is a specialist in European ceramics of the 1700s, court and theatre history, and food and dining culture. Her publications include Harlequin Unmasked (2001), Fired by Passion (2009), and The King’s Peas (2019).