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10 November 2009
lecture @ Peranakan Museum, Singapore
Who were the Javanese Worshipping at Borobudur?
Speaker Dr John MIksic

7 July - 23 Nov 2008
exhibition @ ACM Singapore
Seeing Red: Propaganda and Material Culture in China (1966 – 1976)

January 2009
Ceramics Fundamentals I

February 2009
trip to Central Java

July 2009
Ceramics Fundamentals II (Banding Wheel)

ongoing
exhibition @ NUS Museums, Singapore
Ways of Seeing Chinese Art


What's new on this website?

In Memoriam Roxanna Brown

The Oriental Ceramic Society of the Philippines
June 2008 newsletter
uploaded 20 June 2008

The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong Ltd
Spring Newsletter, May 2008
uploaded 20 June 2008

Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum, Bangkok

current newsletter: May-June 2008

The Oriental Ceramic Society (UK)
Summer 2008 Programme
uploaded 7 may 2008


An Eye For Fake Antiques
published in Sunday Star (Malaysia) 17 June 2007
uploaded 10 july 2007

Cirebon Cargo of Yue Ceramics Vessels
by Yvonne Tan | published in ASIAN ART NEWSPAPER, May 2007

Buddhist Sculptures from Shandong
by Yvonne Tan | published in ASIAN ART NEWSPAPER, May 2007



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Formed in 1969, the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society’s purpose is to widen appreciation and acquire knowledge of the ceramic art of China and countries adjacent to China, especially those of Southeast Asia. To pursue this aim, local members meet for periodic discussion, to hear talks by experts and to study and compare ‘pots’.

The Southeast Asian Ceramics Society organised an inaugural Exhibition at the University Art Museum, Singapore in 1971. This landmark exhibition consisted of 350 examples of Khmer, Annamese and early Thai pottery, drawn largely from the University collection built up by Mr William Willets, the curator, who served as the first President of the Society. A substantial number of pieces also came from the collection of Don Sinclair and other Members of the first Council.

The historian Mr John Guy has noted that this "presentation of the then little known ceramic tradition of Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam caused a stir amongst the oriental ceramic cognoscenti.” Furthermore, that "the Willets pioneering Catalogue for the Society inspired a generation of younger scholars and stimulated the interest of government archaeological departments throughout Southeast Asia." As a consequence, ceramic societies were to emerge in ensuing years in West Malaysia, Jakarta, Manila and Hong Kong, following the lead of the Singapore chapter.

last update of this website | 31 october 2008 | website design by Michelle Chin, 2006-2008