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Bonhams
Collecting in Context: Lord Cunliffe, Chinese Ceramics and English Taste, 1700 - 1960.

Colin Sheaf, International Head of Asian Art, Bonhams

Friday, 8th November
6.15-7pm

101 New Bond Street
London W1S 1SR
Chris Mitchell, tel. 020 7468 8248
email. [email protected]
http://www.bonhams.com

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Bonhams
Queen Mary II and Queen Caroline. Royal purchases of art d'Outremer in the late 17th century and early 18th century.

Joanna Marschner, Curator of the State Royal Apartments, Kensington Palace.

Friday, 8th November
7-7.45pm

101 New Bond Street
London W1S 1SR
Asian Dept., tel. 020 7468 8248 

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Circle of Tibetan and Himalayan Studies
Symposium 'Visions of Enlightenment: New Perspectives on Tibetan Art'.

Saturday, 9th November
9am-6pm

Philips Building Lecture Theatre
Brunei Gallery
SOAS, University of London
Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Dr Ulrich Pagel, tel. 020 7898 4782
email. [email protected] 

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Sotheby's Institute of Art
First Day of Conference
'The Woodblock Art in East Asia'. Links between the printmaking traditions of China, Japan and Korea.

Speakers include: David Barker - University of Ulster, Dr Anne Farrer - Sotheby's Institute, Charlotte Horlyck - V&A Museum, Dr Timon Screech - SOAS and Dr Ellis Tinios - University of Leeds

Saturday, 9th November
10am-6pm

Gilbert Collection
Somerset House
The Strand
London WC2R 1LA
tickets: Janine Rymer, tel. 020 7462 3239 

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Sotheby's Institute of Art
Second day of conference
'The Woodblock Art in East Asia'. Links between the printmaking traditions of China, Japan and Korea

Speakers include: David Barker - University of Ulster, Dr Anne Farrer - Sotheby's Institute of Art, Charlotte Horlyck - V&A Museum, Dr Timon Screech -SOAS and Dr Ellis Tinios - University of Leeds

Sunday, 10th November
10am-5pm

Gilbert Collection
Somerset House
Details as above

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Linda Wrigglesworth Ltd
'Creative Momentum'. The significance of the dragon and pearl in Chinese and Tibetan art.

Gary Dickinson and Tashi Mannox

Sunday, 10th November

The White Room
The Metropolitan Hotel
Old Park Lane
London W1Y 4LB
3-5pm, tickets, tel. 020 7408 0177
http://www.cloudband.com/arcade/lindawrigglesworth

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Grace Tsumugi Fine Art Ltd
'A New View from the Inro Connoisseur'. An informal talk with a slide show of the collections of inro and other Japanese works of art by Mr E. A. Wrangham.

Mr E. A. Wrangham

Sunday, 10th November

c/o The Asian Art Gallery
8 Duke Street
London SW1Y 6BN
Free

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Sotheby's
'More About the Mongols'. Recent researches in the Gobi and Taklamakan Desert.

Professor John Carswell

Sunday, 10th November

34-35 New Bond Street
London W1A 2AA
4pm
Tickets, contact Tanya Carr, tel. 020 7293 6442
http://www.sothebys.com

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Christie's
Christie's and The Oriental Ceramics Society present 'Visual Feasts - Food consumption and the history of Japanese Ceramics.'

Dr Rupert Faulkner, Senior Curator of the Victoria & Albert Museum

Sunday, 10th November
6pm

5-8 King Street
London SW1Y 6QT
Mark Hinton, tel. 020 7389 2595
http://www.christies.com

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Grays Antique Market
'Literary Themes on the Antique Chinese Porcelain of Augustus the Strong'.

Dr Eva Stober, curator of the Oriental Department at the Augustus the Strong Collection, Zwinger Museum, Dresden.

Monday, 11th November
5pm

The Music Room
Grays Antique Market
South Molton Lane
London W1Y 1AR
Tickets, tel. 020 7408 1638
Lecture to be followed by Chinese poetry, music, entertainment, drinks, canapes and surprises.

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The Japan Society in association with Sotheby's and Sotheby's Institute of Art
'Japan - The Birthplace of Pottery?'

Simon Kaner, Assistant Director of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture

Monday, 11th November
6.30pm

Sotheby's Olympia
Hammersmith Road
London W14 8UX
Tickets, tel. 020 7828 6330

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Nicholas Grindley
The Dilemmas and Pitfalls of the Dating of Chinese Furniture.

Nicholas Grindley

Tuesday, 12th November
6-7pm

Nicholas Grindley
13 Old Burlington Street
London W1S 3AJ
Reservations: Rebecca Gardner, tel. 020 7437 5449

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British Museum
'Kazari: Decoration & Display in Japan, 15th-19th centuries', by Dr Nicole Rousmaniere of the Sainsbury Institute of Japanese Art and Culture.

Tuesday, 12th November
6.30-7.30pm

BP Lecture Theatre
Clore Centre
British Museum
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
Details and reservations: Penelope Vogler and Antonia Shaw, tel. 020 7323 1234
email. [email protected]

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The Islamic Art Circle
'The History and Development of Islamic Calligraphy'. Presented in association with the Centre for Near and Middle Eastern Studies.

Dr Ebadollah Bahari

Tuesday, 12th November

School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Basement Lecture Theatre
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
6.30pm
Edward Gibbs, tel. 020 8374 2391
email: [email protected]

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Nicholas Grindley
The Dilemmas and Pitfalls of the Dating of Chinese Furniture.
(repeat of Tuesday's lecture)

Nicholas Grindley

Wednesday, 13th November
6-7pm

Nicholas Grindley
13 Old Burlington Street
London W2S 3AJ
Reservations: Rebacca Gardner, tel. 020 7437 5449

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The Circle of Inner Asian Art
'Exotic Goods from Exotic Lands - The Commerce of the Silk Road'.

Jonathan Tucker

Wednesday, 13th November
6pm

SOAS, Philips Lecture Theatre
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H 0XG
CIAA, tel. 020 7898 4464
email, [email protected]

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Winter Olympia Fine Art & Antiques Fair
'The China Trade - Its History and Influence on Le Jardin Anglo-Chinois'

William Sargent, Curator of Asian Export Art at the Peabody Museum, Mass.

Wednesday, 13th November
6.30-7.30pm

The Club Room, The National Hall
Olympia Exhibition Centre
London W14 8UX
Tickets: Box Office, tel. 0870 736 3105

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British Museum
'Vietnam Behind the Lines'

Mrs Thu Stern

Thursday, 14th November
11.15am-12 noon

Room 91
Great Russell Street
Details as above
Information: tel. 020 7323 8000

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Winter Olympia Fine Art & Antiques Fair
'Arts of Kazari - Japan on Display 15th-19th Centuries'

Dr Nicole Rousmaniere of the Sainsbury Institute

Thursday, 14th November
4-5pm

The Club Room
The National Hall
Warick Road
London SW5 9TA
Tickets: Box Office, tel. 0870 736 3105

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Victoria & Albert Museum
Annual Benjamin Zucker lecture on Mughal art. 'Echoes of the Sultanate in Mughal Architecture - the Province of Bengal'.

Dr Perween Hasan, Professor in the Department of Islamic History and Culture, Dhaka University

Thursday, 14th November

Victoria & Albert Museum
Main Lecture Theatre
Cromwell Road
South Kensington
London SW7 2RL

7-9pm (doors open at 6.30pm)
Reception 8-9pmFree entry
Information: Asian Department, V&A Museum, tel. 020 7942 2322

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Asia House and the British Museum present
'Iran - Art after Khomeini. Developments since the 1980s'.

Edward Lucie-Smith, art historian and critic.

Thursday, 14th November
6.30-7.30pm

The British Museum
Stevenson Lecture Theatre
Clore Education Centre
Great Russell Street
London WC1B 3DG
Tickets: Asia House, tel. 020 7499 1287
email. [email protected]
http://www.asiahouse.org

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The Iran Heritage Foundation
'The Role of Mystics in the Evolution of Language and Literature'.

Professor Annemarie Schimmel

Friday, 15th November

Victoria & Albert Museum
Details as above
6.30-7.30pm
Reception, 7.30-9.30pm
Tickets, tel. 020 7493 4766, email: [email protected]

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