Winter Catalogue 2008

We are pleased to present our 2008 Winter exhibition catalogue to coincide with Asian Art in London. We do hope that those who visit London this winter will come and see us, and view the exhibition.

We are fortunate to offer for sale ceramics and works of art from many distinguished collectors; some we are able to name, while others prefer to remain anonymous. We have silver from the Cunliffe and Sackler collections; porcelains from the well-known collections of H. M. Knight, Ira and Nancy Koger and Hugo Munsterberg; jades from the collections of E. T. Chow, T. B. Walker and Neil Phillips; and, among particularly fine and rare examples of lacquer, objects from the collection of Ambassador Doullens, the French Ambassador to Beijing before 1914. Alfred and Ivy Clark were formidable collectors, generous hosts and donors to many museums, and we are showing a painted enamel dish that once belonged to them. Claude Gillot (1853–1903) is a name perhaps not greatly known to many outside France. He was a friend of Henri Vever and Samuel Bing, and had a natural eye, collecting across all cultures. We have bronzes, an imperial cloisonné enamel panel and a Ming pottery bowl from his collection.

Having recently visited Beijing and seen the remarkable restoration work being done in the Qianlong Emperor’s retirement quarters – the Juanqinzhai (Studio of Exhaustion from Diligent Service) and the Qianlong Garden in the Forbidden City – we feel privileged to be able to include a particularly rare lacquer vase made for the Chonghua gong (Palace of Double Brilliance), where he lived as a young man before his accession to the throne as the Qianlong Emperor.

Roger Keverne

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