This year, I have the honour of being invited to curate an exhibition from the renowned Kirknorton Collection, a selection of which was last presented and published in Brian Morgan’s Naturalism & Archaism: Chinese […]

The themes of this exhibition are archaic jade ritual objects and vessels from later periods, many with designs based on archaic examples. We continue to focus on jades whose colours have been altered over […]

Dating of objects remain problematic in many areas of Chinese art. While some materials such as pottery and bronze can be tested with a relative degree of accuracy, one cannot test jades, and thus, […]

INTRODUCTION This autumn, we feature thirty-two objects in varying materials, from bone and ivory to jade and coco de mer, to highlight the boundless ingenuity of Chinese art. Animal bone and ivory have been used […]

INTRODUCTION Art should have no frontiers and should, on the contrary, be a source of enjoyment for people the world over. Our expectation is that this Exhibition may increase knowledge of the Great Past of […]

This exhibition focuses on the wide variety of colours in jade carvings. While some are naturally occurring, others are a result of transformations during burial. Nevertheless, as in the gallery’s previous exhibitions, the importance […]

This exhibition highlights a particular form in Chinese jade culture—the vessel. Its popularity from the Song dynasty (960–1279) to the Qianlong reign (1736–95) of the Qing dynasty (1644–1911) can be seen in the wide […]