AA&ADA Antiques Fair Melbourne – Art-Design-Living, May 2018
AA&ADA has announced their Antiques Fair at Melbourne will take place at Melbourne Showgrounds in 2018, with a Gala Preview May 3, and the Fair open May 4 – 6
Porcelain
Visitors to Versailles 1682-1789, Journeys France – New York
The exhibition, Visitors to Versailles 1682–1789, moves to The Met Fifth Avenue New York, a journey creator Louis XIV wouldn’t have contemplated in his lifetime
The Language of Ornament – National Gallery of Victoria 2017
The Language of Ornament a FREE entry exhibition at NGV International from February 25 2017 will challenge the mind, engage the spirit and connect with the soul
The David Roche Foundation Museum Complex Adelaide, Now Open
The David Roche Foundation House Museum & Gallery glittered gloriously with refracted light for its official opening in North Adelaide by former PM Paul Keating
David Roche House Museum and Gallery, Adelaide – Transition
A TRANSITION Exhibition at the David Roche Foundation House Museum allows visitors access to his great collection and to view the building of a larger gallery
British Museum – Ming: 50 Years Changing China and the World
Ming: 50 Years that Changed China is an important exhibition at the British Museum starting 18th September, 2014, with scholars exploring the period 1400 – 1450
Chinese Ceramics, Pt 2 – Am Glad I Was Not Born Before Tea!
With an assorted assemblage of porcelain wares being used for the tea ceremony in England imports of tea alone multiplied some forty times between 1723 and 1830
Chinese Ceramics, Pt 1 – Knowledge Comes from Seeing Much
Chinese ceramics became known to the wider world from the Tang Dynasty (618- 907) onward; the word ‘China’ eventually becoming the generic name for porcelain
Meissen Porcelain – Passionate Pursuit of Power and Prestige
Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony’s claim to fame rests on his being the founder of the first European factory at Meissen to produce porcelain in the west
Soul of Simplicity: Seven Centuries of Korean Ceramics
Soul of Simplicity-Seven centuries of Korean ceramics is a show at the Art Gallery of NSW revealing a clarity of form, understated decoration and subtle glazes
Chinese Ming Porcelains
Chinese history seems a little obscure to people in the west, however its art and trade wares have attracted a great fascination, particularly since Roman times. Arabian writers speak of fleets of large Chinese junks in the Persian Gulf as early as the ninth century. Her reputation for being inscrutable…
The Mistress & The Consort – Paying the Wages of Beauty
Louis XVI’s Queen Marie Antoinette and Louis XV’s consort Madame du Barry lived at a time of society scandal and political turmoil, paying the wages of beauty
Ming Magic
A description of the manufacture of porcelain in 1713 by French Jesuit priest Father D’Entrecolles, a resident in Peking, relates the firing of blue and white porcelain ‘A beautiful blue colour appears on the porcelain after having been lost for some time. When the colour is first painted on, it…
Classic: ‘true’ Porcelain
When the west first accessed wares of true Chinese porcelain they seemed magically translucent, resonant when struck, impervious to liquids, aesthetically pleasing with great beauty of form. One of the earliest records of ‘true’ porcelain in the west is pieces listed in Queen Elizabeth 1’s 1574 inventories (pursseline’ or purselyn…
Classic: Cargoes from Cathay
For centuries the Chinese traded with Asian islands and the trade spread to the Near East. Today the greatest collections of pre 1620 Chinese porcelains are in Eastern collections, particularly at Istanbul. During the Ming period 1368 – 1644 an entrepreneurial business class grew up in China and by the…