Lectures
Each year, the Oriental Ceramic Society (OCS) curates a series of lectures that are given by distinguished scholars. These talks are scheduled once a month in the evening and are usually held in the Society of Antiquaries at The Royal Academy in Piccadilly. At the present time, however, because of the global pandemic we have moved our lecture series online. Please see upcoming online lectures below.
Lü Dalin and Jades of the Song Dynasty
This special event is is our annual Woolf Jade Lecture ...
Blanc de Chine: A Continuous Conversation
This is a two-part presentation with Dr. Xiaoxin Li focussing on Blanc de Chine in the V&A collection and Peter Ting and Ying Jian discussing contemporary ceramic making in Dehua. ...
Chinese Painting and the Chinese Iconographic Thesaurus: New Directions in Art Historical Research
This special OCS talk is our annual Sonia Lightfoot Memorial Paintings Lecture. ...
Art-Objects, Death and Nostalgia in the Story of the Stone
This talk by Dr. Edward Luper will follow our Annual General Meeting. ...
The Eumorfopoulos Phoenix-Head Ewer Revisited
Peter Lam is presently Honorary Fellow, Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong ...
The Sir Michael Butler Memorial Lecture – New sources of evidence for the classification and understanding of the Sir Michael Butler collection of 17th-century Chinese porcelain
Teresa Canepa and Katharine Butler will present the fruits of their research for the definitive catalogue raisonné of Sir Michael’s renowned collection ...
Feminine Space and Playthings: Recontextualization of Trompe l’Oeil Porcelain in High Qing China
Chih-En Chen is the recipient of our prestigious George de Menasce Memorial Trust Award. ...
Previous Lectures
The Grandidier Collection and Sir Percival David: Rediscoveries
Lucie Chopard is a doctoral student working on Ernest Grandidier and the reception of Chinese art in France. ...
Continuity and Change: The Study of the Ceramics of Yaozhou
Rose Kerr is a past President of OCS and Honorary Associate of the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge ...
The annual Sir Michael Butler Memorial Lecture – Collecting and Interior Design in Britain
Dr. Helen Glaister is the Course Director of the V&A Arts of Asia Year Course and ...
Continuation and Innovation: Chinese Bronzes of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368)
Lu Pengliang joined the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2013. He serves as associate curator of ...
Remarks on Applying Traditional Appraisal Methods when Appraising Ancient Ceramics
Professor Lü Chenglong, Director of the Department of Objects and Decorative Arts, The Palace Museum, Beijing Asia ...
Japanese Ceramics in the Royal Collection
Rachel Peat is Assistant Curator of Non-European Works of Art at Royal Collection Trust, and editor ...
The reception and consumption of Chinese porcelain in Europe and the New World, 16th and 17th centuries
Teresa Canepa is a member of the Council of the Oriental Ceramic Society, and co-editor of ...
Gifts from the Kangxi Emperor to his Grandmother
Rosemary Scott took an honours degree in Chinese Art & Archaeology at the School of Oriental and ...
Chinese Pottery, Stoneware and Porcelain 1368-1661
Peter White, our Vice President and Treasurer and long-time collector of Chinese ceramics. His third lecture will ...
Chinese Pottery, Stoneware and Porcelain 960-1368
Peter White, our Vice President and Treasurer and long-time collector of Chinese ceramics. His second lecture will ...
Chinese Pottery, Stoneware and Porcelain 4000 BC to 1125 AD
Peter White, our Vice President and Treasurer and long-time collector of Chinese ceramics. His first lecture on ...
China: A History in Objects
Jessica Harrison-Hall is the Curator of the Chinese ceramics collections of the British Museum and the ...
