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Had an amazing day viewing (an eclectic mix of) Chinese paintings and porcelains with Zoe Kwok and Cary Liu at ⁦Princeton Art Museum⁩’s storage space. Nothing better than bouncing off ideas with wonderful curator-colleagues

And that’s a wrap! And what a week! Had an incredible time in DC attending and presenting at #AsiaProvenance workshop & symposium with the amazing Tullia Fraser & many old and new friends

The Archive of Imperial Household Furnishings #清宮陳設檔案 is a really important resource for researchers in #Qing #China #arthistory and #materialculture and the The Courtauld library is the only place in the UK you can find it — please come pay us a visit!

Such an amazing week w/ colleagues from The Forbidden City Palace Museum 故宫博物院 Tsinghua University TU Berlin & Ethnological Museum in Berlin studying 燙樣 tangyang - architectural paper models of Qing imperial tombs, visiting museums & storerooms. Nothing beats coming together in person!

Off to Cologne to speak @ Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst on Friday abt the Ancient Playthings 古玩圖 scroll in V&A's collection. V excited to get together with colleagues from Zurich, Amsterdam, Berlin, Hamburg, Cologne & Frankfurt museum-fuer-ostasiatische-kunst.de/downloads/Flye… come one,come all!

Ended last year with a truly inspirits one-day workshop all about emperor Yongzheng's Pictures of Ancient Plaything 古玩圖 at the Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst in Cologne -- here's to a happy, healthy, and busy 2024!

A real honour to have been invited back to my alma mater to speak about my PhD project - this Thursday at the Kunsthistorische Institute Freie Universität many thanks to Prof. Juliane Noth — part of her lecture series ‘art for rulers in China’

Join us for the Universität Wien Summer School to learn Bactrian, Gandhari, Tangut and Tocharian: …naborderlandsconference.wordpress.com/summer-school/

Looking forward to travelling to Munich later this month to present my work on acquisition practices & policies of Boxer loot at the V&A ! Free registration open til Feb 18, 2024 at [email protected] - come one, come all! #provenance #research #boxer #Museum

Join us for our next event to hear Angelina Illes speak on ‘The Fascination with Japanese-Style Gowns in 17th-Century Dutch Painting: A Gendered Perspective’ 🗓️26/3 🕰️5:30pm 📍online More details and book for free: warburg.sas.ac.uk/events/a-mater… #earlymodern #arthistory

Beyond excited to travel to Beijing tomorrow for a two-month research trip! First up: following the imperial route from the Gate of Divine Prowess 神武門 along 14 stops to the western Qing tombs 清西陵 - the subject of my PhD. Let me know if you're in town & fancy meeting up

Difficult to summarise my first 3 weeks in China (after five years!) but the amount of generosity, hospitality & kindness I've been met with is genuinely mind-blowing! So good to be here, talking to colleagues & friends about all things palaces for the living & the dead 🤓

A fantastic opportunity to delve into the rich and varied collections of Asian art at the V&A and the fantastic archives the museum has kept since 19th c. - plus you get to work with amazing colleagues in a stunning building Jin Gao Jacques Schuhmacher - what’s not to like?!

What better way to celebrate my return from China than to find my article on the cover of the Burlington Magazine & thanks to its amazing staff the article is now freely available online! Get your FREE copy & read a novel interpretation of the V&A's 古玩圖 burlington.org.uk/archive/articl…

Only two more days to read my article FOR FREE online: burlington.org.uk/archive/articl… I show how this extraordinary painting is made from same-length paper sheets with a recurring iconography & argue that these sheets were reused for a new purpose as offerings at the imperial mausolea

I had so much fun showing subscribers to Burlington Magazine the extraordinary handscroll Pictures of Ancient Playthings on display at the V&A’s China Gallery - the subject of an article in the June magazine. Do reach out if you’re interested in reading this new research too!

Had a fantastic time at Burghley House a couple of weeks back looking at Chinese and some Japanese porcelains - some enormously famous and surprising pieces alike - but was so smitten by their (Asian) lacquer and textiles 😍

Enormously excited to return to Asia again in just a few weeks: Beijing, Hong Kong, Guangzhou! Come join me (in person or online) for the conference 'Unfolding the Coromandel Screen. Visual Mobility, Inscribed Objecthood, and Global Lives': cah.cityu.edu.hk/events/Coroman…

#Twitterstorians can anybody help with the contact details of a retired professor? Alan Richard Sweeten published his research on the early Qing tombs in Shenyang in 2022, again in 2009-2010 with help of Dumbarton Oaks but I cannot find his email online! doaks.org/research/garde…