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   Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, June 2024.   I hope that everyone had an enjoyable summer. I had a busy time visiting Paris for the Printemps Asiatique, which has become a well established week of exhibitions, lectures, tours and auctions on the international calendar. This year it included an exhibition

I hope that everyone enjoyed the northern hemisphere spring period despite the rather mixed weather that we have been having.  I had a busy period after my return from Australia, which included a trip to Durham for the opening of the new Malcolm MacDonald China gallery and I helped to

I had an enjoyable period over the winters season, which included a three week trip to Melbourne, Australia to break the winter and to visit my daughter.  Last December I celebrated five years in the Chinese art consultancy business and I have written an article with some of my thoughts

I thought that after five years in the business of being a consultant in Chinese art, I would share some of the experiences, successes and thoughts that have developed over this period. A New Begining I left Sotheby’s London at the end of November 2018 after running the Chinese department

I had a really interesting time over the autumn period with my involvement in the Phillip Allen sale that was held at Woolley & Wallis on the 16th of November, which I outline below. I also preview a  collection of blue and white that is coming up at Veritas auction

I had an enjoyable summer despite the variable English weather and in early June travelled to Berlin with the Oriental Ceramics Society to visit the Asian collections of a number of royal palaces and museums. On the 18th of June I visited the exhibition: China’s Hidden Century at the British

The Oriental Ceramics Society tour of Berlin was held at the beginning of the summer and was one of the most interesting trips that I had been on with the Society. There was a diverse group of 24 of us and we were fortunate to see behind the scenes of

This spring has been a busy period and I have been fortunate enough to have seen a number of museum collections and been involved with some handling session with the Oriental Ceramics Society.  In May I travelled to Singapore, where I gave a lecture entitled Adventures and Discoveries in Chinese