Collectors, curators, connoisseurs : a century of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1921-2021

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Title:

Collectors, curators, connoisseurs : a century of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1921-2021

百年清賞：東方陶瓷學會的收藏家、鑑賞家及博物館員

Author:

Wong, Sarah, 1963- editor.

ISBN:

9781527287624

Publication Information:

[London] : Oriental Ceramic Society, [2021]

Physical Description:

336 pages : color illustrations ; 32 cm

General Note:

"Catalogue of an exhibition of the Oriental Ceramic Society at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS University of London, 15th October-11th December 2021."--title-page.

Contents:

'To widen appreciation and to acquire knowledge' : the Oriental Ceramic Society / The OCS Council makes (art) history, The International Exhibition of Chinese Art at the Royal Academy, 1935-36 and its organisers: Percival David, George Eumorfopoulos, R. L. Hobson, Oscar Raphael / Chinese ceramics : the titanium story / The exhibition legacy of the Oriental Ceramic Society / Catalogue. The founding of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 1920s ; 'Open to all those interested in oriental ceramics' : the Oriental Ceramic Society as 'a public institution' and the 1935-36 International Exhibition of Chinese Art at the Royal Academy of Arts, 1930s ; Philanthropy and the institutional legacy of three Oriental Ceramic Society members ; 'To acquire' and share knowledge : research, scholarship and connoisseurship ; Loans from Oriental Ceramic Society members -- Appendix 1. Founder and early members of the Oriental Ceramic Society -- Appendix 2. George Eumorfopoulos and the Oriental Ceramic Society / Appendix 3. Past presidents of the Oriental Ceramic Society -- Appendix 4. Short bibliographies of some early members of the Oriental Ceramic Society / Appendix 5. Oriental Ceramic Society : past exhibitions -- Appendix 6. Oriental Ceramic Society : Hills Gold Medal recipients and lectures -- Some snapshots of past Oriental Ceramic Society activities -- Chronology of China.

Abstract:

"A fully illustrated catalogue edited by Sarah Wong and Stacey Pierson and including both English and Chinese captions. [...] Includes four specially commissioned essays and new unpublished material about the Society's history"-- Provided by publisher.

Corporate Subject:

Oriental Ceramic Society -- Exhibitions.

Oriental Ceramic Society.

Subject Term:

Pottery, Chinese -- Collectors and collecting -- England -- Exhibitions.

Pottery -- Collectors and collecting.

Pottery -- Exhibitions.

Pottery -- Catalogs.

Ceramics -- Exhibitions.

Art museums.

Geographic Term:

China -- Antiquities -- Exhibitions.