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Cultural Ambassadors from the Middle Kingdom: How Export Art Influenced the West

In collaboration with the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) of the University of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Maritime Museum (HKMM) continues its Academic Programme in Spring 2018 with the lecture series ‘Cultural Ambassadors from the Middle Kingdom: Influences of Export Art in the West’.

Coinciding with HKMM’s upcoming exhibition The Silver Age: Origins and Trade of Chinese Export Silver and UMAG’s Objectifying China: Ming and Qing Dynasty Ceramics and Their Stylistic Influences Abroad, in this series four expert speakers will discuss how the European desire for commodities and luxury goods from China (tea, silks, lacquerware, silverware and porcelain) led to the development of a new hybrid art forms that combined the best aspects of Asian and European design.

* The Silver Age: Origins and Trade of Chinese Export Silver
16 January, 2018

Dr. Libby Chan,
Assistant Director (Curatorial and Collections), Hong Kong Maritime Museum

This talk is based on the curatorial research for the Silver Age exhibition at the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, and discusses the origins and trade of Chinese export silver. The talk will cover how Chinese export silver relates to “Chinoiseries” developed in Europe, export ceramics sent to the West during the 16th to the 18th century, as well as the active maritime trade between China and Southeast Asia in the age of globalisation. In addition, the talk will also focus on export silverware made in Hong Kong and its relationship with other workshops in the Pearl River Delta Region during the 19th and the 20th century.

* Venue: Hong Kong Maritime Museum (HKMM)

Free admission and no booking required.

Credit: image of Hong Kong Maritime Museum