Overview
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A half-day course focusing on the much-revered ceramics from the Qing Dynasty. An art historian will guide us to understand the key motifs and decorations, as well as discussing how imperial patronage influenced the development of Chinese art.
Audrey Lee, Associate Specialist, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Christie's Asia Pacific, will guide us to handle a few pieces to be offered in the auction, highlighting issues of connoisseurship and discussing recent collecting trends. She will also guide us through the curated Chinese art auction preview this season.
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Schedule
Monday | 28 November 2022
- 14:45 – 15:45 (GMT+8)
Lecture | Imperial Taste and Chinese Art: Ceramics of the Qing Court I
Nixi Cura | Hon. Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
- 16:00 – 16:45 (GMT+8)
Lecture | Imperial Taste and Chinese Art: Ceramics of the Qing Court I
Nixi Cura
- 16:45 – 17:45 (GMT+8)
Object Handling & Guided Tour * | Chinese Ceramics and the Market: Highlights from the Christie’s Spring Auction Preview
* Chinese Ceramics Exhibition Area, Hall 3D, HKCEC
Audrey Lee | Associate Specialist, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Christie’s Asia
*Schedule and topics are subject to change.
Speakers
Nixi Cura
Hon. Research Fellow, University of Glasgow
Nixi Cura did East Asian Studies at Yale University, then specialised in Chinese painting and Buddhist art, with a minor in Romanesque art, at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. Her current research interests include Qing art, especially during the Qianlong reign (1736-1795), collecting and antiquarian practices in the Qing, Republican and Manchukuo periods, and contemporary Chinese visual culture. Nixi serves concurrently as Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Glasgow and co-founded the Arts of China Consortium.
Audrey Lee
Associate Specialist, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
Christie’s Asia
Audrey Lee joined Christie’s Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art department in 2012, first in New York before relocating to the Hong Kong in 2022. Audrey not only orchestrated Christie's first global eCommerce sale, she also worked on many important Asian art collections that turned into landmark sales, including the collection of Robert Hatfield Ellsworth, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection, and The Fujita Museum Collection. Audrey holds a Bachelor of Arts in History of Art from the University of California, Berkeley and a Master’s Degree in the History of Art and Archaeology of East Asia from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Born in the US and raised in Taipei, Audrey is fluent in both Mandarin Chinese and English.
