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SUMMARY:‘Porcelain Through the Ages’: Exhibiting China at 25 Park Lane (1934)
DESCRIPTION:Sir Joseph Hotung Memorial Lecture Series\nSpeaker: Professor Stacey Pierson\nIn the spring of 1934, Sir Philip Sassoon hosted an exhibition titled ‘Porcelain Through the Ages’ at his London home at 25 Park Lane. Featuring over 500 European, English and Chinese porcelains arranged across four grand living spaces, the exhibition was one of a series mounted in aid of the Royal Northern Hospital. The lenders were an illustrious group, including H. M. The Queen, Sassoon himself and his cousin Sir Percival David, along with several members of the OCS such as Oscar Raphael, Charles Russell and George Eumorfopoulos. The exhibition was very successful and widely publicized at the time but has been overlooked in histories of Chinese ceramics collecting and exhibitions.\nIn fact, as this talk will demonstrate, Porcelain Through the Ages was a pivotal event in the provenance and display history of a number of familiar Chinese ceramics such as the David Vases and the Lennard Cup. Focusing on the Chinese ceramic exhibits, a reconstruction of the contents of the show illuminates a moment in the lives of objects but also the collecting lives of several OCS members. It situates them, and Percival David, in the elite art world of the pre-war 1930s that encompassed Chinese ceramics to a much greater extent than has previously been recognized.\nMembers do not need to book to attend this lecture. Members can watch a live streamed for this lecture via the same Zoom link as the AGM. The Zoom link will be shared on the AGM page ( https://orientalceramicsociety.org.uk/about/agm ) of our website a week before the event.\n5:30 pm – AGM\n6.10pm – Lecture begins\nThe Sir Joseph Hotung Memorial Lecture Series is generously supported by Ellen Hotung.\nImage:  Silver-gilt mounted porcelain bowl and silver gilt cover known as the Lennard Cup. Incised lotus scrolls on exterior, interior of white hare in reserve against landscape in underglaze cobalt blue. Ming dynasty, mid-16th century, mounts with London hallmark for 1569. Copyright SOAS All rights reserved\n \n
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