Homewood Museum hosts an evening with Broadway author and director Mark Bramble, guest co-curator of the museum’s special exhibition As Precious as Gold: A History of Tea Caddies from the Bramble Collection. Mr. Bramble will discuss the vast collection of antique tea caddies he and his late mother assembled over more than five decades of collecting, the subject of his new publication A Tea Caddy Collection (Schiffer Publishing, 2017).

6pm Book signing, exhibition viewing, and reception at Homewood Museum
7pm Book talk nearby in Remsen Hall, room 1

Learn about the historical and societal atmospheres that engendered such varied styles of caddies and how interest in these treasures, created for storing tea, coincided with the competitive search for the formula to make "true" porcelain. Mr. Bramble will also explore how the history behind the tea caddy reinforces the overlap between art and functionality, and how the culture of artistic creation is a random blend of geography, sociology, talent, and luck.