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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...

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