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THE ORIENTAL CERAMIC SOCIETY
PO Box 517
Cambridge CB21 5BE, U.K.
Tel: + 44 (0) 1223 881328
Email address: ocslondon@btinternet.com
Web address: www.ocs-london.com
SUMMER PROGRAMME
2010
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After a busy summer with our very successful The
World in Monochromes exhibition and seminar, we
began our autumn programme with a most enjoyable
evening at the new ceramics galleries at the
Victoria & Albert Museum in October. This was
followed in November by a lecture by Professor Li
Jian’ An on underwater archaeology in China and new
findings on Fujian ceramics, and in December
Professor Peter Lam gave an important lecture on
dating Qianlong Imperial ware. Michel Lee spoke in
January on the the image of the Westerner in Shekwan
(Shiwan) ceramics, and this was followed by the
annual Bonhams/OCS lecture on Japanese Meiji
porcelain. In February Clarence Eng spoke on
architectural ceramics and problems of context, and
in March we were delighted to welcome Professor
Jenny So from the Chinese University of Hong Kong,
who gave the annual Woolf Jade lecture on Chinese
jades of the 12th to 17th centuries. The Society is
most grateful to Jonathan Woolf and the Woolf
Charitable Trust for generously sponsoring the
lecture and for allowing our members to view his
very important collection of Imperial jades.
Since January 2010, all past volumes of the
Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society have
been available to view on the Society’s website,
www.ocs-london.com. Later this year all our
Newsletters and some of our other publications will
also be added. Instructions on how to use the new
online facility are given in our 2010 Newsletter no.
18, sent with this Programme.
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SUBSCRIPTION
RENEWAL
Subscriptions for the year 2010/11 are now due.
Enclosed with this Programme you will find a
Subscription Renewal Form and Invoice. Please check
that all your details on the form are correct and
advise any changes or missing information. Please
return the form with your subscription payment. It
is important that our database contains up-to-date
information for all our members, in order to ensure
that contact between us is efficient. This
information is protected under the terms of the Data
Protection Act. If you pay by Banker’s Order, there
is no need to do anything unless any of your details
need updating, in which case please mark the changes
on the form and return it to us by post or send an
Email.
It saves us a good deal of time and cost if members
pay their subscriptions promptly and we are most
grateful to those members who do so. Only fully paid
up members receive information from us, including
the Transactions.
Payment can be made by banker’s order, credit card
or cheque. We accept sterling and US$ cheques, and
cheques drawn on Euro accounts (but not Euro
cheques). If you wish to pay by credit card, please
write your card number and expiry date on the
Subscription Renewal Form. If you have an old
standing order paying £45 instead of £55 per year,
please send us a cheque for the balance and write to
your bank to update the amount due. Thank you.
The Society is rationalising its holdings of back
copies of the Transactions. If members are
interested in purchasing any of these please let us
know, and we can send you details of the volumes
that are still available. We also have catalogues
from previous exhibitions for sale.
The Society’s programme for Summer 2010 is outlined
below, but for future programmes we would be
delighted to hear from members who know of any new
research that could provide interesting lectures, or
if members have specific topics that they would be
interested in having addressed in future lectures.
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SUMMER PROGRAMME OF LECTURES
All lectures will be held at 6:00 p.m. at the
Society of Antiquaries of London, Burlington House,
Piccadilly, London W1J 0BE, unless otherwise noted*
Tuesday 11th May
Shelagh Vainker
“Owning ceramics in the Northern Song dynasty:
thoughts on who and how”
The high status of Northern Song ceramics is largely
retrospective: during the dynasty itself, huge
quantities were produced but few were collected or
written about. How, then, do we understand how they
were regarded, or what social functions they may
have served? How were they used, and how were they
experienced? This lecture will look at ceramics in
various Northern Song contexts, and particularly at
tombs, in order to establish firstly who owned or
used which types of ceramics, and then to consider
what significance the pieces might have held for
different individuals. The importance of place of
burial of particular wares will also be explored.
Shelagh Vainker is
Curator of Chinese Art at the Ashmolean in Oxford,
and University Lecturer in Chinese Art. She was
previously curator of Chinese ceramics at the
British Museum. In addition to catalogues and
related articles on the Ashmolean’s collection of
modern Chinese paintings, she has worked extensively
on the Northern Song period, publishing on ceramics
particularly and also on Northern Song silk, silver,
lacquer and gold. Shelagh has been President of the
Oriental Ceramic Society since June 2009.
Wednesday 16th June
AGM and lecture
Venue: The Society of Antiquaries
Time: 5:30 p.m.
Please do come and support your Society at our AGM,
when you will hear all about our activities and
achievements during the past year. The AGM will be
followed at 6:00 p.m. by a lecture given by Beth
McKillop, Keeper of the Department of Asia and
Director of Collections at the V&A Museum,
entitled:-
“Korean ceramics in the international nexus: the
V&A's new ceramics galleries”
The V&A collection of Korean ceramics has been
extensively displayed across the new galleries that
opened in 2009-10. As the museum prepares for the
first temporary exhibition of ceramics from Asia -
'Tradition Transformed', curated by Professor Cho
Chung Hyun - in the new temporary exhibition gallery
next year, this lecture will reflect on changes to
the exhibition and display of the V&A's historic and
contemporary Korean ceramics, resulting from the
cross-cultural approach adopted in the new
galleries.
Beth McKillop is Director of Collections and Keeper
of the Department of Asia at the Victoria and Albert
Museum. She is interested in the cultural
connections between China and Korea, with ceramics
and print culture as her two main areas of research.
Until 2004 she was a curator in the Asian
Collections of the British Library, where she
contributed to the 2003 exhibition 'Chinese
Printmaking Today'. For the V&A's new Ceramics
Galleries, she has curated displays of Korean
ceramics of all periods. Her publications include
Korean Art and Design (1992), North Korean Culture
and Society (2004) and the Korean sections of The
Oxford Companion to the Book (2010).
The lecture will be followed by a drinks reception,
to which all members are invited. There will be a
charge of £10.00 per head for the reception; please
complete the booking form at the end of this
Programme and mail to us with your payment. Guests
are welcome.
Please note change of date for our October lecture,
which will now be held on Tuesday 5th October and
not Tuesday 12th.
Tuesday 5th October
Louise Allison Cort and Leedom Lefferts
“Pots and how they are made in Mainland Southeast
Asia”
The potters at work today in villages in Thailand,
Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, and southern Yunnan
province, PRC, make either earthenware or stoneware
vessels for local and regional markets. These two
basic types of ceramics still play important roles
in local food preparation and storage and in
religious rituals. Our field research among these
communities, which began in 1989, has looked at how
methods of pottery production cut across modern
political borders to reveal more fundamental links
among language and cultural groups and to hint at
patterns of migration and interaction. We will
introduce some of the memorable potters we have met
and share video clips and images of how pots are
made.
Louise Allison Cort is Curator for Ceramics, Freer
Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Her
most recent publication is Ceramics in Mainland
Southeast Asia, http://SEAsianCeramics.asia.si.edu.
Leedom Lefferts is Professor of Anthropology
Emeritus, Drew University, and Research Associate,
Anthropology Department, Smithsonian Institution. He
is author of many publications on aspects of
development, textiles, ceramics and Buddhism in
Northeast Thailand, including “The Bun Phra Wet
Painted Scrolls of Northeastern Thailand,” in the
Journal of the Walters Art Museum 64/65 (2009).
Tuesday 9th November
Luisa Mengoni and Rose Kerr on "Chinese Export
Ceramics in the Victoria & Albert Museum"
Tuesday 7th December
Rosemary Scott on “Porcelains from the Reign of
Perpetual Happiness”
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Visit to Northampton Museum and Art Gallery and
Kelmarsh Hall
Wednesday 23 June, 2010
The museum has an extensive collection of Oriental
(mainly Chinese) porcelain as well as a large
collection of Dutch and English Delft ware. Only a
small proportion of the collection is on show and
the curator has agreed to show us the reserve
collection. The stores are not large and the party
must be limited to 20 members. One party of 10
members will be admitted to the store while the
second party can view the main galleries. The art
gallery also has an interesting collection of early
paintings and the museum also has, of course, the
national shoe collection! The Oriental porcelain was
given by two separate local collectors in the early
20th century and comprises mainly export ware from
the sixteenth to the eighteen century. As well as
blue and white and enamelled wares there is also
some Yixing and Blanc de Chine. The Delft wares are
particularly interesting since many are direct
copies of Oriental specimens.
There is a multi storey car park very close to the
museum and it is proposed that we meet at the museum
at 10:45hrs. Northampton is very close to the M1
junctions 15 and 15A (from the south) and 16 (from
the north).
After the museum visit we will visit Kelmarsh Hall,
a fine Palladian mansion, situated about 20 minutes
by road from Northampton. We can have lunch at the
hall prior to our visit. The hall was built in the
early 1730s and was given new life in the 1920s when
Nancy Lancaster, nee Tree, re-furnished it in what
we now recognise as the English country house look.
She introduced many fine furnishings and also
exuberant Chinese wallpaper into one of the rooms.
Nancy Lancaster also exercised her talents in the
garden and employed Geoffrey Jellicoe to design the
formal terrace. Kelmarsh also holds some of the
highly important English furniture from Croome Court
in Worcestershire, which is currently being restored
by the National Trust, and I have arranged for us to
see these furnishings. The 6th Earl of Coventry
built Croome Court and ‘Capability’ Brown was
responsible for the landscape garden.
If you would like to join this visit, please
complete the form at the end of this programme
(including your lunch order) and return it to
Phillip Allen. Since he will be driving from
Bedford, he would be happy to collect up to four
members who are prepared to come to Bedford by
train.
Lunch menu
Option 1:
Jacket potato with cheese or coleslaw or Tuna
mayonnaise or Vegetable quiche with salad: £6.00
Option 2:
Salmon and Prawn mornay
Chicken, ham and leek Canneloni £8.00
Option 3:
Bowl of homemade soup and selection of sandwiches
£6.99
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THE
OCS DISCUSSION AND HANDLING GROUP
The OCS Discussion and Handling Group enjoy regular
meetings at which members of the Society bring along
items which they have collected for discussion. Each
of these meetings is devoted to a particular topic
and, although the Society has an especial interest
in ceramics, other subjects are also included.
On 2nd March, a group of OCS members spent a most
interesting afternoon at Christie’s art store in
Vauxhall, where we viewed a selection of ivories
held by the Sir Victor Sassoon Chinese Ivories Trust
and learned of the history of the collection. We
were most grateful to Phillip Allen for making
arrangements for this handling session of such
beautiful items of ivory.
Bonhams have once again
kindly offered to host the second meeting on 11th
May, which will be on the subject of Shipwreck
Ceramics, and will take place in their lecture
theatre at 101 New Bond Street, starting at 3:00
p.m. Shipwreck ceramics (and indeed other objects)
made for export that have emerged from the deep, are
of enormous value to all of us who are interested in
Oriental studies. The type of vessels and their
watery locations also tell us much about how the
export trade was organised.
The invention and improvement of diving equipment
during the past hundred years has seen more and more
wrecks being located and investigated and the major
auction houses are now often involved in the sale of
many of the items that have been found. Many members
have acquired these ceramics and this is an
opportunity for us to look at these as a whole.
Please bring any items that show evidence of having
emerged from the sea as well as those that have
labels showing that they are from wrecks such as
Vung Tau, Ca Mau, the Diana and Hatcher wrecks.
If you intend to participate in the 11th May
meeting, please complete the booking form at the end
of this Programme and mail it to Phillip Allen as
soon as convenient.
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OF INTEREST
TO MEMBERS
Ceramics on Show: Public and Private Displays, a
conference, will be held at the Victoria & Albert
Museum on 24th and 25th September, 2010. Following
the opening of the new ceramics galleries at the
V&A, this conference will explore the ways in which
ceramic objects have been displayed by private
individuals, collectors, architects, retailers,
galleries and museums. The conference will bring
together academics and curators, critics and artists
to examine both contemporary and historic practice.
Four specific themes will be addressed:-
• The presentation and interpretation of ceramics by
museums
• Ceramics and display in retail and domestic
environments
• Ceramics and architecture
• Issues of display in contemporary ceramic art
Ceramics of Asia – the second short course for 2010
on Ceramics of Asia at the School of Oriental and
African Studies will run from 1st to 4th June, 2010.
Course fee: £540. For details, contact Dr. Heather
Elgood on 020 7898 4451 or Email to
asianart@soas.ac.uk. www.soas.ac.uk.
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts &
Cultures
64 The Close, Norwich, NR1 4DH. Tel: 01603 624349.
Email: sisjac@sainsbury-institute.org. Web site:
www.sainsbury-institute.org.
Admission free, advance booking recommended.
Lectures start at 6:00 p.m.
Thursday Lecture Series
June 17th
Unearthed: Ceramic Figures from Prehistoric Japan
and the Balkans
Dr. Simon Kaner, Assistant Director, Sainsbury
Institute
Venue: Hostry, Norwich Cathedral, Norwich NR1 4EH
Islamic Art Circle at SOAS
All lectures begin at 7:00 pm in the Khalili Lecture
Theatre (Main School Lecture Theatre), Philips
Building, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh
Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG. For further
information contact Rosalind Wade Haddon on 01608
730769 or email to rosalindhaddon@aol.com.
12th May
Ottoman Art between Asia and Europe
Mr. Tim Stanley, Senior Curator, Middle East
Department, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
9th June
The Uses of Landscape in Medieval Persian Painting
Professor Robert Hillenbrand, Professor Emeritus,
History of Art, Edinburgh University
New Publication
Indian Textiles in the East: from Southeast Asia to
Japan, by John Guy, has recently been re-issued in
paperback (formerly published as Woven Cargoes). The
book gives an account of the vast Asian trade in
Indian textiles to Southeast and East Asia.
Alongside a wealth of illustrations, the author
examines the history of the cloth-for-spices trade,
focusing on the 17th and 18th centuries when the
1000 year-old-trade was at its peak. John Guy is
Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art at the
Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and was
formerly Senior Curator of the Asian Department at
the V&A Museum. Published by Thames & Hudson. ISBN
978 0 500 288290.
EXHIBITIONS AND MUSEUMS
THE BRITISH MUSEUM
Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG. Tel: +44
(0)207 323 8181. www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk.
The Sir Joseph Hotung Centre for Ceramic Studies
housing the Sir Percival David Collection of Chinese
ceramics: Room 95
The Joseph E Hotung gallery of Oriental Antiquities
from China, India, South Asia and Southeast Asia:
Room 33.
Arts of Korea: The Korea Foundation Gallery, Room
67.
7000 Years of Chinese Jade from the Collection of
Sir Joseph Hotung: The Selwyn and Ellie Alleyne
Gallery, Room 33B.
The John Addis Islamic Gallery: Room 34
The Printed Image in China from 8th to 21st
Centuries, 6th May to 5th September 2010, presents
the fantastic range of Chinese prints in the British
Museum collection for the first time. Rooms 90 & 91.
VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM
Cromwell Road, London SW7 2RL. 0207 942 2000.
www.vam.ac.uk
The new ceramics galleries are now open.
Toshiba Gallery of Japanese Art and Design
TT Tsui Gallery of Chinese Art
The Samsung Gallery of Korean Art
Jameel Gallery of
Islamic Art
ASHMOLEAN MUSEUM
Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH. Tel: +44 (0)1865
278000. Fax: +44 (0)1865 278018
eastern.art@ashmus.ox.ac.uk www.ashmolean.org
Open Tuesday – Sunday and Bank Holidays, 10.00 –
6.00. Closed 24-26 December and 1 January
The Ashmolean Museum re-opened to the public on 7
November 2009 following a £61M, four-year
redevelopment. The 39 new galleries include Japan
1600-1850; Japan from 1850; China to AD 800; China
from AD 800; The Khoan and Michael Sullivan Gallery
of Chinese Painting, currently showing The Past in
the Present: script and archaism in modern Chinese
painting; Art of the Islamic Middle East; India to
AD 600; India from AD 800; Mughal India; Asian
Crossroads; West meets East as well as galleries
devoted to textiles, money, reading and writing and
other cross-cultural themes that include Asian
material. From 26 September until New Year 2011,
there will be a small exhibition of Japanese prints
from the Ashmolean's own collection in the Eastern
Art Paintings and Prints Gallery - Japanese Ghosts
and Demons.
THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, CAMBRIDGE
Trumpington Street,
Cambridge CB2 1RB. Tel: 01223 332900. Closed
Mondays.
The Oriental Gallery of Chinese and Japanese Art and
the Gompertz Gallery of Korean Art.
Netsuke: Japanese Art in Miniature, until 30 May.
Gifts of the Ebb Tide: Japan and the Sea in Ukiyo-e
Prints, from 18 May to 15 August.
BRIGHTON AND HOVE MUSEUMS
4-5 Pavilion Buildings, Brighton BN1 1EE. Tel: 01273
292763
THE MUSEUM OF EAST ASIAN ART, BATH
12 Bennett Street Bath, BA1 2QJ: Tel. 01225 464640.
Email: info@meaa.org.uk. Web: www.meaa.org.uk.
Due to popular demand, highlights of the exhibition
Cutting Edge: Untraditional Papercuts by Three
Contemporary Chinese Artists has been extended to
29th August, 2010. This exhibition showcases
papercuts which move away from the traditional
two-dimensional style by layering a series of
painted papercuts, one on top of another, to create
a sense of depth. In association with ArtChinese,
the Museum will host a new exhibition from 1st May
to 29th August, entitled Animal Kingdom: Paintings
by Li Fuyuan. Mr. Li uses brush painting techniques
with stunning effects and his paintings are full of
bold, contrasting colours and are sure to delight.
2010 FAIRS
Art Antiques London, a new fair arranged by Haughton
International Fairs, will take place from 9th – 16th
June in a purpose-built marquee in Kensington
Gardens, opposite the Royal Albert Hall. This will
incorporate the International Ceramics Fair and
Seminar. For details go to www.haughton.com or email
to info@haughton.com or telephone +44 (0) 20 7389
6555. Complimentary tickets available for OCS
members.
The Antiques Dealers Fair Limited is holding the
following fine art and antiques fairs in 2010:-
17–19 September: Stapleford Park, near Melton
Mowbray, Leics. www.staplefordparkfair.com
8–10 October: Esher Hall, Sandown Park Racecourse,
Esher, Surrey. www.esherhallfair.com
5–7 November: Tankersley Manor, Barnsley, South
Yorkshire. www.tankersleymanorfair.com
The Antiques Dealers Fair Limited. Tickets and
enquiries: +44 (0)1797 252030. www.adfl.co.uk.
Penman Fairs are pleased to send OCS members
complimentary tickets to their antiques fairs to be
held on the following dates in 2010:-
3-6 June: West London Art & Antiques Fair,
Kensington Town Hall.
25-27 June: Towcester Antiques Fair, Towcester
Racecourse, Northants.
10-12 September: Petersfield Antiques Fair, Hants.
22-26 September: Chelsea Antiques Fair, Chelsea Old
Town Hall, Kings Road, London.
21-24 October: Chester Antiques & Fine Art Show,
Chester Racecourse.
Enquiries: www.penman-fairs.co.uk, Email
info@penman-fairs.co.uk or telephone 01825 744074.
Full details of the summer/autumn sales are given in
our Newsletter No. 18, 2010.
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Useful Links:
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www.seaceramic.org.sg
- Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Singapore.
www.orientalceramics.org.hk - The Oriental Ceramic
Society, Hong Kong.
www.amigosdooriente.com - The Oriental Ceramic
Society, Portugal.
www.taasa.org.au
- The Asian Arts Society of Australia.
www.meaa.org.uk - The
Museum of East Asian Art, Bath, U.K.
www.oxfordceramicsgroup.org.uk - The Oxford
Ceramics Group, U.K.
www.ocssweden.se
- The Oriental Ceramic Society of Sweden.
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