Meet the Council
Members of the Council meet several times a year to decide our programme of lectures and plan the Society’s work. This year the Council has focused on our centenary, concentrating on raising funds for our 2021 exhibition and catalogue. Also on our agenda have been designing and building our new website, watching over the finances, and liaising with sister ceramic societies overseas.
President

It is the study of Asian art that lights up the eyes of members of the Oriental Ceramic Society.
For 100 years, collectors and curators, dealers and professors have all met regularly in central London to listen and to debate. Our long-running journal, Transactions¸lets us look back on lectures from the great figures of British and international Asian art history. Today, the Society is a vibrant organisation where friends and acquaintances exchange ideas, plan journeys and debate the issues of the day.
The generosity of past members has enriched London’s museum collections of Chinese ceramics. The Society benefits from the generous support of the art trade, including dealers and auction houses, who sponsor lectures and arrange viewing visits. We are fortunate that curators and scholars from the British Museum, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the School of Oriental and African Studies still play an active part in our programmes too.
All are welcome to join our lectures. As we enter 2021, our centenary year, we look forward to carrying on our convivial practice of meeting friends from auction houses, dealers, collectors, museums and universities.
We welcome you to join us as we celebrate our 100th birthday!
Beth McKillop FSA, President, The Oriental Ceramic Society

The OCS Council
President
Beth McKillop
Vice President & Honorary Treasurer
Peter White
Honorary Secretary
Editor of TOCS
Stacey Pierson
Assistant Honorary Secretary
Curator of the OCS Centennial Exhibition
Sarah Wong
Representative from the British Museum
Jessica Harrison-Hall
Representative from the
Victoria & Albert Museum
Xiaoxin Li
Representative in North America
Angela McAteer
Co-editors of the OCS Newsletter
Teresa Canepa and Beth Gardiner
Council Members
Stuart Balmer
Elaine Buck
David Canty
Asaph Hyman
Clive Jacotine
Henry Howard-Sneyd
Malcolm McNeill
Willemijn van Noord
Harry Douglas-Hamilton