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• Major Publications of Roxanna M Brown

  1973a Ceramic Excavations in the Philippines in Transactions of the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society Singapore

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Articles

• Various - Taiwan Hong Kong Study Trip 2011 - 01 Nov 2011

  This year SEACS decided on a study trip to Taiwan and Hong Kong in Oct 2011 The initial plan was to see the imperial collection in Taiwans National Palace Museum the Museum of history and some private collections Our very well connected member and guide Lim Yah Chiew delighted us...

• Linda McLaren - Traveller’s Tale: A SEACS Study Tour of Historic Kiln Sites in Fujian and Jingdezhen - 01 May 2010

  This article has been reproduced from the June 2010 issue of the TAASA Review the quarterly journal of the Asian Arts Society of AustraliaNB correction to paragraph 3 on page 26 Chen Jiazi should be referred to as a former curator of the National University of Singapore NUS Museum

• Jan Stuart - New At The British Museum: The Sir Percival David Collection In The Sir Joseph Hotung Centre For Ceramic Studies - 31 Jul 2009

• Rachel Leow - Curating the Oceans: The Future of Singapore’s Past - 14 Jul 2009

• Simon Worrall - Tang Shipwreck: Made in China - 01 Jun 2009

• Kenson Kwok - The Director Reflects On His Eighteen Years At The Asian Civilisations Museum - 01 Jan 2009

• Lam Pin Foo - The Tranquillity and Poetic Charm of Chinese Paintings - 01 Jul 2008

  I have always enjoyed gazing at traditional Chinese landscape paintings as their tranquil impact soothes my mind and body especially after a hectic work day They would bring me into a seemingly surreal world of majestic mountain peaks shrouded in cloud or mist surrounded by lush greenery gently flowing streams...

• Angus Forsyth - Roxanna Maude Brown (1946-2008) In Memoriam: A Personal Reminiscence - 01 Jun 2008

  A macabre brutal and wretchedly cruel tragedy has hit both the surviving son Jaime and wider family of the late Roxanna Brown Director of The Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum at Bangkok University Thailand She travelled to Seattle on 8th May 2008 from Bangkok as an invited distinguished expert speaker to...

• SEACS - In Memoriam Roxanna Brown - 14 May 2008

  Museum director in antiquities probe dies in federal custody 14 May 2008

• Lam Pin Foo - Jade - China’s “King of Gemstones” - 21 Apr 2008

  No one loves and reveres jades more than the Chinese The Chinese are indisputably the most jade yu loving people on earth They have always regarded it the King of Gem Stones and their abiding love affair with it began several millennia ago In ancient China jade was eagerly sought...

• Lam Pin Foo - The Charm of the Chinese Export Porcelain to Southeast Asia - 02 Apr 2008

  China had been exporting large quantities of trade porcelain to the Nanyang Southeast Asia particularly to Indonesia and Philippines from the Song Dynasty 9601279 onwards in exchange for spices bird nests cinnamon rare hard woods and other exotic produces of this region It became a status symbol immediately and changed...

• Lam Pin Foo - England: Treasure Trove of Antique Chinese Ceramics - 18 Mar 2008

  Every time I look at my Chinese ceramic collection I cant help casting my mind back to the palpably exciting and fruitful times I had in England some 30 years ago feverishly Chinese antiqueshunting not only in London but also in the provinces England is indisputably the worlds most antiquesloving...

• Lam Pin Foo - The Joy and Frustration of Becoming an Art Collector - 29 Feb 2008

  For the first 30 years of my life art did not interest me at all During my school days in my native Singapore and in my youth I had set foot in the local museum only once as a family outing To this day the only exhibit there that I...

• Sunday Star (Malaysia) - An eye for fake antiques - 17 Jun 2007

  Fake chinese antiquities have become so sophisticated that detecting them now requires hightech equipment and leading world experts like Peter Lam of the Chinese University of Hong Kong CUHK are at the forefront of exposing crooked dealers

• Yvonne Tan - Buddhist Sculptures from Shandong - 01 May 2007

  The Miho Museum in Shigaraki Japan celebrates its 10th anniversary this year Inaugurating the event is a special commemorative exhibition Buddhist Sculptures from Shandong Tracing the Source of Asuka Buddhist Imagery which explores the genius of Shandong Buddhist figural art Shandong in east China is renowned as the birthplace of...

• Yvonne Tan - Cirebon Cargo of Yue Ceramics Vessels - 01 May 2007

  IN FEBRUARY 2003 some 100 km off Cirebon on the north Java coast local fishermen caught ceramic objects in their dragnets They were part of wreckage found at a depth of 56 m in the Java Sea subsequently named the Cirebon cargo The first of these wares surfaced in April...

Reviews, Commentaries & Synopses

• Natalie SY Ong - Exhibition: “From China to Arabia: Ancient Treasure Ships and the Great Oman Voyage” - 25 Jun 2010

  Curated by the National Geographic Society in conjunction with the Museum of East Asian Art Bath UK this exhibition was organised to coincide with the world premiere of the documentary on the National Geographic Channel about the recreation of a 9thcentury treasure ship that will sail from Oman to Singapore...

• Natalie SY Ong - A talk by Lim Yah Chiew: “Five Dynasty Treasures: Chinese Ceramics found in the Indonesian Cirebon Shipwreck” - 18 May 2010

  As part of the ongoing events related to the exhibition Southeast Asian Ceramics New Light on Old Pottery ends 25th July 2010 noted ceramics specialist Lim Yah Chiew gave an enlightening lecture to Society members Chinese ceramics being his area of expertise the talk naturally focussed on those that were...

• Natalie SY Ong - Lecture by Rose Kerr: “Chinese Export Ceramics for the Southeast Asian Market in the Victoria & Albert Museum” - 10 Mar 2010

  In this talk the emphasis was on the Southeast Asian collection in the museum which was brought in by individuals during the course of the latter half of the 19th and the early 20th century This was a time of scientific effervescence the start of the Industrial Revolution Enthusiasm reigned...

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