Stacey Pierson | From Temples to Palaces: The Story of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain

Stacey Pierson is a scholar of the art history, archaeology and technology of Chinese ceramics, including export wares; the movement of Chinese ceramics and its impacts; the history of collecting Asian art and its display in Britain. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in this subject as well as the history of Chinese art and the history of collecting and display.
Pierson has published widely and curates exhibitions including the recent Academics, Agents and Activists: the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1916-2016. From 1995-2007 she was Curator of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, also at SOAS, which housed one of the most important collections of Chinese ceramics in the world. An exhibition on the Ming vase at this museum inspired the recent book From Object to Concept: Global Consumption and the Transformation of Ming Porcelain (Hong Kong University Press, 2013). She also edits the annual journal Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society (London) which has been published since 1921.
This event is presented in conjunction with the current exhibition, “Blue and White Ceramics: An Enduring Global Obsession,” curated by Maureen Warren.
Sponsored in part by the Lorado Taft Lectureship on Art Fund/College of Fine and Applied Arts, Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies, and Krannert Art Museum
Krannert Art Museum (KAM) promotes a vibrant exchange of ideas in the visual arts. KAM's rich permanent collection contains over 10,000 works of art dating from the fourth millennium BCE to the present, representing a broad range of cultures and varied modes of expression. Located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, KAM is the second largest general fine arts museum in Illinois. It operates within the College of Fine and Applied Arts. More information can be found at kam.illinois.edu

[@johnmccann373]

love Stacey Pierson, she is such an amazing expert, and I have followed her from SOAS in 2005-2006 to now, as Chinese porcelain is my main area of East Asian studies.

[@igorgontarenko3196]

Thank you very much Stacey.