Centenary Presentations

OCS Centenary Presentations
As part of our centenary celebrations, the council of the OCS has commissioned a series of short videos by collectors and experts about objects lent to our special centenary exhibition, Collectors, Curators, Connoisseurs: A Century of The Oriental Ceramic Society.
OCS Centenary Playlist - scroll down to see all entries
Winchester College
Art Institute of Chicago
Sir John Woolf Collection
Giuseppe Eskenazi
Private Collection
Victoria & Albert Museum
Barlow Collection
Sir Michael Butler Collection
The British Museum
Museum of East Asian Art, Bath
Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
From the collection at Winchester College.
From the collection at Winchester College.
From the collection at Winchester College.
Archaic bronze food vessel, Bo Ju Gui
Early Western Zhou period, c. 1050-975 BCE
Presented by Dr Tao Wang, Pritzer Chair, Arts of Asia and Curator of Chinese Art and the Executive Director, Initiative in Asia, The Art Institute of Chicago
Carved yellow jade vase and cover
Qing Dynasty Qianlong period, 1736 – 1795
Presented by Carol Michaelson, consultant to the Sir John Woolf Collection of Chinese Jade
Presented by Giuseppe Eskenazi
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Depicting the Poet Tao Yuanming.
Republican Period, c 1945.
Presented by Dominic Jellinek.
Yuan Dynasty, probably late 13th to early 14th century.
Jingdezhen kiln, Jiangxi Province
Carved Lacquer Tray, Ming Dynasty, 14th Century
Presented by Xiaoxin Li
Curator of the Chinese Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Ming Dynastry, 1368 – 1644
Presentd by XiaoXin Li
Curator of the Chinese Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Ru ware cup stand
Northern Song Dynasty, c. 1086-1106
Presented by Xiaoxin Li
Curator of the Chinese Collections
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
A pair of Longquan celadon-glazed stoneware Vases. Souther Song Dynasty, 13th Century
Presented by Shelagh Vainker.
Curator of Chinese Art and Associate Professor of Chinese Art at the Ashmoleum Museum, Oxford.
Ming Dynasty, Yongle period, 1403 – 1424
Presented by Colin Sheaf
Chairman of the Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art
Tang Dynasty, c. 700 – 750
Presented by Jessica Harrison-Hall
Head of China Section, Curator of Chinese Ceramics, Decorative Arts and the Sir Percival David Collection at the British Museum, London.
Mina’i ware dated to the Beginning of Muharram 583 AH / March 1187 CE
Kashan, Iran
Presented by Dr Venetia Porter.
Curator, Islamic and Contemporary Middle East Art
Department of the Middle East, The British Museum
Probably Northern Song Dynasty, 960 – 1127
Presented by Chia-Han Chou, Curator of the Museum of East Asian Art, Bath.
Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng mark and of the period, 1723-1735
Presented by Kate Newnham
Senior Curator of Visual Arts at the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery
Southern Song Dynasty – 13th Century
Presented by Kate Newnham, Senior Curator of Visual Arts at Bristol Museum & Art Gallery.