The Program: “Richard Kan, In Pursuit of Unblemished Colours”
About the Speaker: Richard W. C. Kan is a respected collector of Chinese monochrome ceramics from the fifth to the eighteenth century with an emphasis on the early (1368-1487 (Ming Dynasty) and early (1644-1795) Qing Dynasty. His collection covers most, if not all, of the fifty-seven hues cited by Tang Ying, who was in charge of the Imperial Porcelain Factory in Jingdezhen, in the reigns of the emperors Yongzheng and Qianlong. In the past twenty years, an exhibition of some of his monochrome collection was mounted in the Art Museum of the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2005, another one in the Foundation Baur in Geneva in 2018 and currently in the Musée Guimet in Paris (2024). A more extensive profile of Richard W. C. Kan may be downloaded here.
Mr. Kan addressed SEACS members on 27 September 7:00-8:30 pm at the Singapore National Library.