Ceramic Stories

How the Japanese learned to make handles Japanese pots, bowls and teacups rarely had handles until the modern age....

Contributed by Jo Groarke St. Ignatius of Loyola tea bowl and saucer. 18th century ceramics. Photo courtesy: Asian Civilisations...

We have lost another great maritime archaeologist: Sheldon Clyde Jago-on, who passed away 9 March 2021. Clyde was the...

Contributed by Tim Clark The story begins in the 1790s in India where the ‘Honourable’ East India Company was...

The Ru dish found in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) During a review of the digital catalogue of the...

Contributed by Alexander Nicholas Shaw I began collecting English heraldic souvenir ware, more commonly known as ‘crested china’ when...

Jingdezhen Porcelain in the Making: A unique animation using 18th-century watercolour paintings The National Museum of Korea recently collaborated...

New Maritime Museum opens in Fujian Province, PRC The Shimao Maritime Silk Road Museum in Shishi, Quanzhou, Fujian Province,...

A 17th Century tale retold in the Risalo of Shah Abdul Latif “A potter’s daughter, Sohni was married against...

Contributed by Tim Clark A Staffordshire figurine of Lord Raglan (1788-1855) This earthenware figure tells several stories. It tells...

Contributed by Ann Proctor This ceramic sculpture represents a long friendship with the Vietnamese ceramic artist and museum professional,...

Contributed by Mathew & Patricia Welch With only a 24-hour stopover in Nagasaki allotted on the cruise ship’s schedule,...

Contributed by Margaret White My acquisition story begins in Hong Kong in 2007. My low-fired, earthenware figurine was most...

Contributed by Jo Groarke, SEACS member and ACM docent The time had come to dip my toes into the...

Yaozhou ceramics found in newly excavated Xi’an tombs More than 60 pieces of delicate celadon — green pottery —...

Lecture: Navigating the Art Auction Ecosystem by Andrew Nai   7pm Wednesday,15 July A virtual meeting held on ZOOM...

Kraak from the Wanli Shipwreck Contributed by Mathew Welch A type VIII kraak saucer, dated to c. 1625 from...

Hunting the Bear By Margaret White, Overseas SEACS Member My story concerns the purchase of a blue and white...

By Freddie Oh, SEACS Member ‘Freddie’s Folly’ (Large 17C Vietnamese blue-white fish dish reproduction. Catfish swimming among water plants...

By Ng Seng Leong, SEACS member, and author of Culture in Clay: Symbolism & Iconography in Chinese Ceramics “During...

Contributed by Bernadette Rankine, Director for Southeast Asia, Bonhams I am not a ceramics expert, nor do I have...

A Sulawesi Trade Ware Collection Submitted by Ed Conyngham, a career Foreign Service Officer and ‘Old Asia Hand’ (updated...

Contributed by Paul Bromberg, Editor of Journal of the Siam Society, Contributing Editor to Arts of Asia magazine and author of THAI SILVER...

by Low Sze Wee, CEO Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre and SEACS Life Member When I was in my teens,...

By Pauline Ong, Life member of SEACS This plate was made in the summer of 1939 in Jingdezhen, China....

By Tim Clark (SEACS Councillor) I have built up a large collection of old English teapots in England. And I...

A Sulawesi Trade Ware Collection Submitted by Ed Conyngham, a career Foreign Service Officer and ‘Old Asia Hand’ The...

Contributed by Andrew Nai, SEACS Vice-President (2017-2018)  In June 2013, I bought from an art auction house in Melbourne,...

A Covered Cricket Container, replica of Qing Dynasty (Xuande Period) Contributed by Marjorie Chu (SEACS President 2005-2008) This is...

By Khun Atthasit Sukkham, Assistant Curator, Southeast Asian Ceramics Museum of Bangkok University, Thailand Late Si Satchanalai figure in...

By Ruth Gerson, freelance author Sankampaeng is a village in northern Thailand where ceramics were made between the 14th...

By Prof Keith Branigan, Emeritus Professor, Department of Archaeology, The University of Sheffield, U.K. Cretan clay bull. Image available...

A Lotus-Leaf Longquan Bowl Contributed by Johanes H. Rizal, SEACS Vice-President (2018) Dimensions: Diameter 12.0cm and Height 5.5cm While...

The Beauty of Chinese Ceramic Spoons is Not Skin Deep* By Lam Pin Foo, SEACS President (1991-2001)    ...

By Kenson Kwok, Founding Director, Asian Civilisations Museum and SEACS President (1990-1992) Figure 1 Figure 2 Acq. No. 2000-03404...

Contributed by Lim Yah Chiew, SEACS Councillor (2002-2019) This porcelain buckle was produced in the early Qing dynasty during...

By Ingrid C. Hanson, SEACS President (2012-2016) A wedding gift from TG Ling, from his late wife’s collection, is...

Contributed by Dawn F. Rooney, Scholar, Art Historian, Author (Southeast Asian Specialty) In 1971, the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society-Singapore...

Contributed by Patricia Bjaaland Welch, SEACS Life Member and President (2017-2020) My contemporary Burmese teapot ...

Contributed by Alvin Chia, SEACS President (2008-2011)   In 1989, a friend passed me a Sotheby’s catalogue of the...

Qing Dynasty, Xuantong Mark and Period Pair of Wine Cups with a Rare Studio Hallmark Contributed by Andrew Nai,...