SEACS Members’ Handling Sessions for 2025-26
SEACS launched its series of 2025-26 handling sess [...]
A Valuable Research Resource: Southeast Asian Ceramic Special Exhibition Categories 1970-2009
"Exhibition catalogues are important guidebooks f [...]
More information on the topic of Qur’an manuscripts from Aceh
Our August guest speaker, Annabel Gallop, who rec [...]
Launch of “Clay & Colour: Ceramics from the Alice & Peter Tan Collection”
SEACS President Kwa Chong Guan gave the Remarks at the launch of Clay & Colour at its launch 24 July, 2025, which are now available for download here...
More on Kedah
Two new books have been published on the history and archaeology of Kedah and the Bujang Valley in the May 2025 issue of JMBRAS--and have been reviewed by the Society's President, Professor Kwa Chong Guan. Download the relevant reviews here...
Ceramics in Mainland Southeast Asia: The Freer Collection
If you're reading this, you are seeking informati [...]
Meet Portugal’s New Ceramics Centre: The Albuquerque Foundation
Since Portugal's new ceramics centre opened on 22 [...]
Public Talk in Mandarin in Singapore: “Why Jingdezhen? Tracing the Roots of the World’s Porcelain Capital”
The Society for Chinese Ceramics Studies (SCCS) i [...]
Exhibition on Ceramic Roof Tile Traditions and the Maritime Trade Road
SEACS members visiting Cambodia over the next few [...]
A History of Korean Ceramics
The long-awaited comprehensive book on the history of Korean ceramics! This beautiful, richly-illustrated by Beth McKillop and Jane Portal has just been published by Reaktion Books. In the words of Edmund de Waal, "This is the book on Korean ceramics we have been waiting for. It is engaging and it is magisterial. And I love it."
Dancing Lady, Rising Horse: Investigating the Mystery behind Two Curious Objects in the ACM Collection
If Singapore's Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) were threatened with destruction, and I could save only one artefact ....
The 2025 William Willetts Lecture
This year's William Willetts Lecture will be held [...]
“The Shipwreck Detective” – An article in the Nov. 11 issue of the New Yorker
The 11 November 2024 issue of The New Yorker magaz [...]
New Yixing Museum now open
The 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....
A Fine Blue and White Imperial Dragon Bowl with a Unique Studio Hallmark, Qianlong Period
A collector describes a favourite acquisition: a fine blue and white dragon bowl of the Qianlong Period featuring Ming-style rendered dragons interspersed with clouds or scrolls
Marine archaeologists may have found Vasco de Gama’s shipwreck
In a remarkable discovery, researchers might have [...]
Japanese Ceramics in Chinese Style
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
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....