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Japanese Ceramics in Chinese Style

6 December 2024|Ceramic News|

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. 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

23 November 2024|Ceramic News|

Each 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....

A Talk on an Early Case of Repatriation of Looted Cultural Property

14 August 2024|Ceramic News|

The 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....

Save the Dates! Our Annual Ceramic (and Book) Sales will be held on two separate dates: 15 September (Part I: Books) and 21 & 22 September (Part II: Books & Ceramics)

24 July 2024|Ceramic News|

SEACS invites its members to submit ceramics, books, magazines & related materials to its annual ceramics & book sale to be held on September 21-22, 2024. All items for sale must be properly recorded and submitted using the appropriate forms on Saturday or Sunday, 17 or 18 August. The forms may be downloaded from our website. For more information....

In Paris? Visit the Musée Guimet’s special summer exhibition on monochromes

9 July 2024|Ceramic News|

"Au coeur de la couleur" (Unblemished colours: Chinese monochrome masterpieces 8th-18th century) is the Musée Guimet's special summer exhibition, closing 16 September 2024. For more information, visit their English-language website (https://www.guimet.fr/en/exhibitions/unblemished-colours). A selection of photos and sample texts courtesy of one of our members is posted on our "Ceramic Stories" page.

SEACS Councillor on “Lost Gold Coins of the Old Singapore Library”

10 March 2024|Ceramic News|

SEACS Hon. Secretary Foo Shu Tieng is also an Associate Librarian with the National Library, Singapore, and works with the Singapore and Southeast Asia collections. She has a newly published article on the two ancient gold coins that were uncovered near present-day Keppel Harbour that unfortunately vanished before they could be properly studied. Listen to the podcast that tells the story.

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