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The 2025 William Willetts Lecture
pbjwelch2025-01-10T16:39:07+08:00This year's William Willetts Lecture will be held on Friday, 14 March [...]
“The Shipwreck Detective” – An article in the Nov. 11 issue of the New Yorker
pbjwelch2025-01-11T13:18:32+08:00The 11 November 2024 issue of The New Yorker magazine features an arti [...]
New Yixing Museum now open
pbjwelch2024-12-15T09:58:38+08:00The 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....
Marine archaeologists may have found Vasco de Gama’s shipwreck
pbjwelch2024-12-06T14:56:18+08:00In a remarkable discovery, researchers might have found the vessel th [...]
Japanese Ceramics in Chinese Style
pbjwelch2024-12-07T09:24:04+08:00Kindred 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.
SEACS members return from the 2024 Field Trip to Penang and Kedah
pbjwelch2024-12-15T09:31:03+08:00Each 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....
SEACS President awarded a Friend of MCCY Appreciation Award
pbjwelch2024-11-03T13:47:26+08:00Mr. Kwa Chong Guan has been an active contributor to the heritage sec [...]
Singapore’s Tang Shipwreck Highlights now in London
pbjwelch2024-10-19T12:07:18+08:00A number of Singapore’s prize Tang Shipwreck artefacts including the [...]
Ming Dynasty Ceramic Treasures from the Palace Museum
pbjwelch2024-10-16T09:30:32+08:00Visitors to Hong Kong may want to visit an exhibition featuring over [...]
Congratulations to SEACS Lifetime member Low Sze Wee
pbjwelch2024-08-17T12:55:01+08:00We are delighted to announce that SEACS Lifetime member Mr. Low Sze W [...]
A Talk on an Early Case of Repatriation of Looted Cultural Property
pbjwelch2024-08-14T16:29:08+08:00The Chinese University of Hong Kong Law School has just announced its Greater China Legal History Seminar Series for 2024-25. These talks are on ZOOM, free, in English, and open to the public. We think SEACS members may be interested in an upcoming talk (13 October, 12:30-2:00 pm HK time) on "The Gates of Kam Tin: An Early Case of Repatriation of Looted Cultural Property". For more information....
Temasek Wreck report now available for downloading from NUS
pbjwelch2024-07-27T09:42:07+08:00NUS Press has just released the Temasek Wreck report ["The Temasek Wreck Blue-and-White Porcelain Database: Distribution and Composition" by Dr. Michael Flecker, as part of its Southeast Asian Archaeological Site Reports. Download the report.