Museum Exhibition Reviews
Hong Kong Palace Museum – 30 November 2024
Brilliance: Ming Dynasty Ceramic Treasures from the Palace Museum, 1368-1644 I visited the Hong Kong Palace Museum for the first time on 30 November last year and went with some clients from Australia. The most interesting exhibition on this visit was the Ming Dynasty Ceramic Treasures from the Palace Museum.
Visit to the Burrell Collection – September 2022
I recently visited the Burrell Collection as part of a trip with the Oriental Ceramics Society (OCS) to Scotland. My last visit had been at the end of 2013 whilst undertaking a valuation with Sotheby’s. The collection was put together by the Glaswegian shipping magnate Sir William Burrell and was
Visit to the Guimet Museum on 8 June 2022
On a brief visit to Paris during their Spring Asian Art Week, I gave a brief tour of the Chinese ceramic galleries of the Guimet Museum. I had not visited the museum since prior to the pandemic, so it was good to be back and to see this great collection
A Symphony of Colour: The Mountstuart Elphinstone Collection of Qing Monochromes
Collecting for a Young Contemporary Audience
Visit to the Powell-Cotton Museum
Robert Bradlow visited the Powell-Cotton Museum in Birchington-on-Sea, Kent with three fellow OCS members on 12 April 2022.
Collectors of Chinese Art in Britain in the 20th Century. The Victoria & Albert Museum
T.T. Tsui Gallery and the 4th Floor Ceramic Galleries Introduction My second talk to the Chinese clients of the consultancy group New Vision was held at the Victoria and Albert Museum on Sunday the 17th of October and consisted of two sessions, one looking at the Room 44, the T.T.
Tour of the Percival David Collection at the British Museum on 20 August 2021
On Friday 20 August, I gave a talk on the Percival David Collection to a group of Chinese clients of the New Vision Artall Consultancy. It was my first lecture from the series that I will be giving entitled: Chinese Art Collectors in Britain in the 20th Century and it was a
Museum Exhibition Review – 31 July 2020
A preview of the Metropolitan Exhibition – A Passion For Jade: Heber Bishop and His Collection. Robert Bradlow previews the exhibition that has been running at the Met since October 2017 and is one of the most significant collections of jade formed in the second half of the 19th century.
Article 10, Two Generous Bequests to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
I last visited the Fitzwilliam Museum in March 2019 and walking through the galleries, I was struck by the variety and quality of the exhibits.