This Zoom lecture will be presented by John Guy, the Florence and Herbert Irving Curator of the Arts of South and Southeast Asia at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
the Hickleys and the Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore
Date: 18 July 2022
Time:
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Location: Online via Zoom
This Zoom lecture describes the journey of a collection of blanc de chine - how it travelled from the home of Singapore collectors, Frank and Pamela Hickley, via Dehua to a new home in the Asian Civilisations Museum (ACM) in Singapore.
This talk will look at key developments which made Asian and European metal
thread embroidery the most fabulous form of embroidery in the long history of textile
embellishment.
Eurasian fashion and the decorative arts 1500-1800
Date: 1 August 2022
Time:
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Location: Online via Zoom
This lecture will examine a series of artifacts that were fashions themselves: from Chinese export ceramics depicting fashions and fashionability, to reverse-painted portrait mirrors made for European traders.
