‘Porcelain Through the Ages’: Exhibiting China at 25 Park Lane (1934)
Speaker: Professor Stacey Pierson
Details of the lecture will follow shortly.
Members do not need to book to attend this lecture.
5:30 pm – AGM
6:15 pm – Lecture begins
Image: 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
Speaker
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Professor Stacey PiersonProfessor of the History of Chinese CeramicsProfessor of the History of Chinese Ceramics at SOAS, University of London. In addition to teaching and supervising research students in the School of Arts, she is the former President of the Oriental Ceramic Society (London) and is series editor for the Routledge title Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1550-1950. Previously, from 1995 – 2007, she was Curator of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese art, also at the University of London, which housed the world-renowned David collection of Chinese ceramics. She has published widely on aspects of Chinese ceramics, Percival David and the history of collecting and exhibitions, including Collectors, Collections and Museums: the Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain: 1560-1960 (2007), Chinese Ceramics: a Design History (2009), From Object to Concept: Global Consumption and the Transformation of Ming Porcelain (2013), Private Collecting, Exhibitions and the Shaping of Art History in London: the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1866-1950 (2017) and the edited volume Visual, Material and Textual Cultures of Food and Drink in China, 200 BCE – 1900 CE, Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia, no. 25 (2022). She has just completed a biography of Percival David that will be published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press in December 2026.
