Kindred Spirits: 100 Japanese Ceramics in Chinese Style. The Shen Zhai Collection

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Rose Kerr is Honorary Associate of the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge (UK) after retiring as Keeper of the Far Eastern Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. She teaches and lectures internationally and is an Honorary Fellow at the University of Glasgow; Trustee of the Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art; and Museum Expert Advisor for Hong Kong. In 2015 she was made an Honorary Citizen of Jingdezhen. An author and contributor to twenty-six books on Asian art she is a regular contributor to journals and magazines. Patrick M. Kwok () is a third-generation Singapore collector whose family art business marked its centennial in 2018. Over the past four decades his research interests have covered a wide range of Chinese art in particular bronzes and ceramics. These constitute the core collections of (Shen Zhai) the Studio of Reverence. The bronzes were documented in a volume that he edited Dialogue with the Ancients: 100 Bronzes of the Shang Zhou and Han Dynasties: The Shen Zhai Collection (Select Books 2018). He is a vice president of The China Society Singapore and since the early 1980s he has been a member of the Oriental Ceramics Society in London as well as in Hong Kong and of the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society Singapore. His interest in Japanese art led him to focus on the influence of Chinese aesthetics in Japanese ceramics sculpture and painting. Dr. Maezaki Shinya () is Professor of Art and Design History at Kyoto Womens University and a Visiting Researcher at the Art Research Centre Ritsumeikan University and Archival Research Centre of Kyoto City University of Arts. After gaining his doctorate in London in 2009 he worked for six years as a post-doctoral fellow at Ritsumeikan University Kyoto. In 2015 he took up the position of Associate Professor at Kyoto Womens University and was promoted to Professor in April 2022. Dr. Clare Pollard is Curator of Japanese Art at the Ashmolean Museum University of Oxford. After gaining her doctorate in Oxford in 1996 she worked for seven years as Curator of the East Asian Collections at the Chester Beatty Library Dublin. In 2004 she took up the position of Curator of Japanese Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney before returning to the Ashmolean in April 2006.