An introduction to China’s export ceramics including kraak, Swatow, armorial, Thai bencharong and Southeast Asia’s nyonya wares, by Li-Ching Wang for SEACS members on 26 July 2021.
The collection (and the story behind the collection) of Vietnamese Ceramics at Singapore's Asian Civilisations Museum, by its founding director Kenson Kwok, presented to SEACS members on 4 August 2021.
The Department of Archaeology, Oriental Museum, Durham University and [...]
Two Conferences to share research on Hanoi's famous Thǎng Long Citadel [...]
A collector's interest is piqued when he discovers an 1897 reprint of a late 19th century book on Burma written by George Bird.
An introduction to Bizen, Shigaraki and Echize: three centres of ceramics production belonging to the 'Six Old Kilns of Japan'.
How did three British-made plates come to be found by divers in the Musi River?....
The 28-meter long Phanom-Surin shipwreck (PNS) recently found in the upper Gulf of Thailand dates roughly to the same period as Singapore’s ‘Tang shipwreck’, the Belitung, but unfortunately was cargo-less. Read more about this remarkable find and the handful of ceramics that were found with it....
Japanese pots, bowls, cups and other ceramics rarely had handles until recently....
The original inspiration for this depiction of Saint Ignatius was an oil-on-canvas painting by the great Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens....
We have lost another great maritime archaeologist: Sheldon Clyde Jago-on, who passed away 9 March 2021. Clyde was the Curator of the Archaeology Division and a former Officer in Charge of the Maritime and Underwater Cultural Heritage division of the National Museum of the Philippines.
The story begins in the 1790s in India where the 'honourable' East India Company was struggling to maintain control....
