The ceramic centre Yixing, famous for centuries for its highly-admired teapots, has opened a new ceramics museum on a former state-owned factory. Designed by the Japanese firm of Kengo Kuma and Associates, the new museum has been built in the form of a sleeping dragon. For more information....
A collector describes a favourite acquisition: a fine blue and white dragon bowl of the Qianlong Period featuring Ming-style rendered dragons interspersed with clouds or scrolls
In a remarkable discovery, researchers might have found the vessel th [...]
Kindred Spirits: 100 Japanese Ceramics in Chinese Style (the Shen Zhai Collection) is a lush new volume edited by Clare Pollard that features third-generation collector-dealer and SEACS member Patrick K M Kwok's latest passion: Chinese-inspired Japanese ceramics. Together with Pollard, Curator of Japanese Art of the Ashmolean Museum, and Rose Kerr, Fukunaga Ai, and Maezaki Shinya, they have produced an elegant collectors' tome with magnificent large photographs and texts that highlight each piece's features and history. For additional information including a link to the publisher's website to order a copy continue reading.
Each year, SEACS arranges a field trip to a destination of interest ranging from far-away sites such as Jingdezhen or Changsha to sites nearer home. This year we opted for Penang and Kedah, the locale of two previous field trips, to hear and see what new discoveries had been made, with a highlight stop at the archaeology laboratory at the Universiti Sains Malaysia....
Each year, SEACS organises a field & study trip to a site of local archaeological and/or ceramic interest. This year, the Society opted for a return visit to Kedah and the Bujang River area to be updated on its more recent discoveries and to visit the newly opened site museum.
Mr. Kwa Chong Guan has been an active contributor to the heritage sec [...]
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SEACS Council member Darlene Kasten reports on Singapore's beloved 'Tang Shipwreck' artefacts on loan and now displayed in London's British Museum through 23 February 2025.
A number of Singapore’s prize Tang Shipwreck artefacts including the [...]
Visitors to Hong Kong may want to visit an exhibition featuring over [...]
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