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SUMMARY:A History of Collecting of Asian Material Culture by the National Museum of Ireland, with a particular focus on the Albert Bender Collection
DESCRIPTION:The Dublin Science and Art Museum, now the National Museum of Ireland (NMI), was founded in 1877 under the ‘Science and Art Museum Act’. Officials for the Museum began collecting based on the South Kensington model, which they were tied to administratively. Like other metropolitan centres of these islands, such as Edinburgh and Liverpool, policy dictated that the acquisition of the applied/industrial arts be internationally as well as nationally based. As a result many objects of non-Western provenance, in the National Museum of Ireland’s case, approximately 7,000 objects of Asian origin, were acquired.\nFollowing Irish Independence in 1922, the collections policy of the NMI dictated a focus on acquiring Irish material culture. Therefore, the Albert Bender Donations of East Asian Art to the NMI are something of an anomaly. Albert M. Bender (1866-1941) was born in Dublin, the son of Rabbi Philip Bender. By the time he was an adolescent he had emigrated to San Francisco, California where by the turn of the 20th century he was one of the most successful insurance brokers on the west coast of the United States. Although first attracted to book collecting and modern art, both of which he generously supported he also became interested in Asian art. In honour of his mother, Augusta Bender, he donated approx. 260 artefacts of mostly Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan origin to the National Museum of Ireland between 1931 and 1936. The then Director of the National Museum, archaeologist Adolf Mahr, was Albert Bender’s main point of contact throughout the donations.\nThe objects collected by Bender and subsequently donated to the NMI include a rare set of Thangkas (paintings on cotton) of the Arhats (disciples) of Buddha and four Lokapalas (Guardians) of the Four Quarters of the World from a Tibetan-Buddhist temple dating to the 18th century. Also included are textiles associated with the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911 AD), Japanese Ukiyo-e (woodblock prints), a Daoist priest’s robe from 17th/18th century China and several decorative arts objects in the areas of metalwork, ceramics and wood.\nThis lecture is generously sponsored by Dr H Y Mok Charitable Foundation.\n
URL:https://orientalceramicsociety.org.uk/events/a-history-of-collecting-of-asian-material-culture-by-the-national-museum-of-ireland-with-a-particular-focus-on-the-albert-bender-collection
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