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Hong Kong Palace Museum at dusk, November 2024.   I hope that everyone had an enjoyable autumn. I had a busy time during this period viewing the various auctions during Asian Art in London, as well as travelling to Hong Kong for the sales for the first time since October

   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