May-June 2011 - Arts of Asia

EDITORIAL
H.M. the Queen visits the new Islamic gallery at the Official Opening of the
Ashmolean Museum on December 2nd, 2009. Dr Christopher Brown, Director
of the Ashmolean Museum (left); H.M. the Queen; HRH Prince Mohammed bin
Nawaf Al-Saud, UK Ambassador for Saudi Arabia (right). © Theo Chalmers, 2009
The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, reopened on
November 7th, 2009 after a £61 million redevelopment
Tuyet Nguyet, Art of Asia Publisher & Editor, visited the reopening
on November 7th with Colin Sheaf, Chairman of Bonhams Asia (left).
They were given a tour of the installations by Dr Christopher Brown
and Dr Andrew Topsfield, Keeper of Eastern Art (right)
H.M. the Queen is shown a Central Asian ikat coat by Mark Norman,
Head of Conservation. © Theo Chalmers, 2009
Guests attending the opening of the new building, November 2009.
© Theo Chalmers, 2009
Sir Michael Caine, Shakira Baksh and
Julian Lennon were among the celebrities
who attended Masterpiece London 2010
Florence Brudenell-Bruce with the Founders of Masterpiece
London: Harry van der Hoorn, Simon Phillips, Harry Apter,
Thomas Woodham-Smith and Robert Procop
Sir Roger Moore hailed
the fair as “breathtaking
in its execution”
The 38th Olympia International Fine Art & Antiques Fair, which takes
place in London from Thursday 9th to Sunday 19th June, 2011,
is renowned for its exceptional variety of objects on offer
Kan’non (Avalokiteshvara)
from Mingei Arts Gallery
Vajrakila with his consort
Dipachakra from Capriaquar
Vietnamese Giao-Chi era bronze vessel with a spout in the
form of a bird’s head from Christophe Hioco will be shown
at the Brussels Oriental Art Fair, June 8th–12th, 2011
Members of the Hong Kong Art Craft Merchants Association hold
the new edition of the guidebook Something Old Something New–
Shopping for Chinese Antiques and Works of Art in Hong Kong.
(Standing left to right) Charles Wong, K.Y. Ng, Lau Wai Nin
(Seated left to right) Cecil Sien, Henry C.S. Chong, Martin Fung
(Above) 10-dollar note of Ta Ching
Government Bank, China’s first
national bank, featuring a portrait
of Prince Regent Zai Feng, father
of the Xuantong emperor (Puyi)
(Left) Detail from The Illustrated London
News from England on February 17th,
1912. With the headline “ The Most
Wonderful Change in History:
China Becomes a Republic”, it
shows China’s last emperor Puyi
(standing) and his father Zai Feng
(Left) China’s defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War fuelled the ambitions of the
foreign powers to divide the country up. Foreign countries were basically free
to help themselves to the lucrative pie known as “China’s territory” in this
cartoon in a French pictorial. (Right) This illustration showing Chinese men
having their queues cut on the streets of Shanghai was featured on the cover
of a French pictorial in February 1911. In the early Republican period,
queue cutting became an expression of support for the 1911 Revolution
Dr Sun Yat-sen (right, seated) during his visit to Hong Kong in 1912
meets Acting Governor Claud Severn (left, seated), Sir Kai Ho Kai
(back row, standing, first from left) and Cecil Clementi (first from right).
Dr Sun was prohibited from setting foot in Hong Kong for a prolonged
period after the colonial government banished him in 1896
Donald Tsang (centre), Chief Executive of the HKSAR, receives a gift
from Mr Zhang Tong, Vice-Governor of Hubei Province, at the
official opening of “Centenary of China’s 1911 Revolution” held
on March 1st, 2011 at the Hong Kong Museum of History