Summer Exhibition 2008

We are pleased to present our 2008 Summer exhibition catalogue. We look forward to welcoming those who travel to London this season to our gallery, and hope that you will enjoy the works of art we are offering for sale, most of which have rested for some time in collections all over the world, some distinguished and famous, and some lesser known.

There were some collectors active in the first half of the twentieth century who were ahead of their time in the connoisseurship and appreciation of works in Chinese taste, as opposed to export art or that inspired by the taste for Chinoiserie. Among that group of collectors, we are delighted to include works of art once belonging to Alfred and Ivy Clark, D. David-Weill, Sir Harry Garner, Sir Herbert Ingram and Raymond Riesco. C. T. Loo was a pioneering dealer and collector whose reputation is widespread and whose private collection gives an insight into the taste prevalent during his time, and we are very pleased to offer for sale a rare gold finial once belonging to him.

I am very grateful to Dr Wang Tao for translating the inscriptions on the archaic Chinese bronzes and for his insightful comments about them.