SPRING 2022 Editorial

by marketing_aoa | Feb 24, 2022 | Editorial

Four Japanese imperial silver bonbonnières, The Nancy and Robin Markbreiter Collection THE EYE-CATCHING cover for the Spring 2022 issue on Japanese art and antiques features a group of exquisite Japanese imperial silver bonbonnières (miniature containers for...

From Twelve to Seven Hundred–The Oriental Ceramic Society’s Transformation from a Gentleman-Collector’s Club to an Academic Society

by marketing_aoa | Jan 24, 2022 | Article

FRANCES WOOD 1 OCS members at the Royal Palace of La Granja de San Ildefonso in Spain. Photo: Stephen Lloyd OFFERING LECTURES, small “handling sessions” of ceramics where members can present items from their collections for comment, tours of up to twenty-five to see...

WINTER 2021 Editorial

by marketing_aoa | Oct 28, 2021 | Editorial

Green-glazed stoneware meiping with large peonies, Northern Song dynasty, circa 1000–1100, Guantai, Handan, Hebei province, height 39.8 cm. British Museum, 1936,1012.175 © The Trustees of the British Museum Large lead-glazed stoneware seated figureMing dynasty,...

Emperor Qianlong’s Imperial Jade Archers’ Rings

by marketing_aoa | Oct 1, 2021 | Article

GUO FUXIANGCurator, The Palace Museum, BeijingTranslation by Emily J.C. Tu and James R. Peipert 1 Emperor Qianlong in Armour Inspecting the Troops, Hanging Scroll by Giuseppe Castiglione, Qing dynasty, Height 332.5 cm, width 232 cm, Palace Museum Collection, Beijing,...

AUTUMN 2021 Editorial

by marketing_aoa | Sep 14, 2021 | Editorial

I HOPE all our readers have had an enjoyable summer and are safe and well. For our Autumn 2021 issue, I am excited to present this special edition on “Appreciating Chinese Scholar’s Objects”. The luxury goods of their time, scholar’s objects represented the physical...