The curator oversees a collection of European and North American decorative arts broadly dating from 1500 CE to the present. A particular focus of the curator’s work will be the cataloguing, interpretation, and display of the world-class English Collection of 19th-century British and European majolica, a type of mold-made earthenware, brilliantly colored using translucent lead glazes, that was commercially introduced by the Minton Company in the 1850’s and ultimately produced across Europe, North America, and Australia.