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.
The book is available online by Arnoldsche (the publisher) . It is also listed by online booksellers such as Amazon, ACC Books, Abe Books, etc, although at higher prices.
Singapore residents interested in contemporary Japanese ceramicists continuing some of the traditional ceramics of Japan will not be disappointed by a visit to Huls Gallery’s flagship Singapore boutique at 24 Duxton Hill, which features a large number of contemporary traditional Japanese ceramics (open 11-19:00 but closed Sundays). A branch is also located at Millenia Walk, 9 Raffles Blvd. #01-36/37.
