• Coming Event-March 2012

    Group tutor:    Bill Sargent
    Location: Sydney, British Columbia
    Dates: Saturday & Sunday, March 3rd and 4th, 2012

    Chinese Export Ceramics Study Weekend

    William R. Sargent is an independent scholar and curator, and former curator of Asian export art at the Peabody Essex Museum. He had been with that collection, considered the largest and most comprehensive of its type in the world, for over thirty-two years. Before focusing on Asian export art he worked on and published exhibition catalogs on American art and contemporary prints. He has presented over 200 lectures on Asian export art throughout the United States, in Australia, Canada, England, Portugal, France, the Netherlands, Singapore, Sweden, Macao, Hong Kong and China. His publications include The Copeland Collection: Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Figures (1991) and Views of the Pearl River Delta: Macao, Canton and Hong Kong (1996). He contributed an essay for Chinese Ceramics: Neolithic to Qing (Yale University Press, 2010). His forthcoming book, Chinese Export Ceramics from the Peabody Essex Museum, is due in May 2012.


  • Schedule

    Programme

    Day 1 - March 3rd, 2012:

    Lecture: 500 Years of Collecting Chinese Export Ceramics - a Social History.
    Lecture: New Research and Connoisseurship on Chinese Export Ceramics.
    Handling and Identification Session.
    Reception.

    Day 2 - March 4th, 2012:

    Lecture: Envisioning Cathay: Asian Export Arts in the Americas.
    Handling and Identification session.

    This study group is available to only 30 participants Cost: $385.00 A full programme will be sent to all applicants Places are transferable up to one week prior to the event and with the approval of Pacific Coast Seminars
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Pacific Coast Seminars

Established in 2003 to offer the antique enthusiast an opportunity to learn from some of the worlds finest experts.

Our seminars and workshops are limited to small numbers of participants to ensure that each individual has the chance to learn from, and mingle with, the speakers and fellow participants. The seminars are held in Vancouver, BC., Victoria, BC., and in London, UK.

    Previous Speakers

Paul Atterbury— Author, Member of British Antiques Roadshow team of Experts

Karina Corrigan — Associate Curator, The Peabody Essex Museum, Author.

Anton Gabszewicz — Former Head of the European Ceramics Department of Christie's.

Jonathan Gray — Author, Expert Welsh Ceramics.

Leslie Grigsby — Curator of Ceramic and Glass, Winterthur Museum, Author.

Dr. Geoffrey Godden— Author of over 30 standard reference texts, presenter on the British Antiques Roadshow.

Pat Halfpenny — Director of Museum Collections at Winterthur - retired.

Dr. Maurice Hillis— Chairman, Northern Ceramic Society, Author.

Lyn Hillis— Programme Secretary, Northern Ceramic Society.

Rod Jellicoe— Specialist, 18th Century English Porcelain, Author.

Dr. Rose Kerr— Former Keeper of the Far Eastern Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, Author.

Errol Manners — Chairman, The French Porcelain Society.

Kathy Niblett— Historian of 20th Century Ceramics.

Dinah Reynolds — Author, Expert early Worcester porcelain.

Bill Sargent— Former H.A. Crosby Forbes Curator of Asian Export Art at the Peabody Essex Museum, author.

Rosemary Scott — International Academic Director, Christie's, Author.