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The Journal of the Asian Arts Society of Australia VOLUME 23 NO. VOLUME D 4 E THE JOURNAL OF C EM B E R 2014 THE ASIAN ARTS SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA TAASA Review CONTENTS Volume 23 No. 4 December 2014 3 EDITORIAL TAASA REVIEW Josefa Green THE ASIAN ARTS SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA INC. Abn 64093697537 • Vol. 23 No.4, December 2014 ISSN 1037.6674 4 KOSOMETSUKE - OLD BLUE AND WHITE Registered by Australia Post. Publication No. NBQ 4134 Jackie Menzies editoriAL • email: [email protected] 7 EUROPEAN DECORATION ON EARLY EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ORIENTAL PORCELAIN General editor, Josefa Green James MacKean publications COMMITTEE Josefa Green (convenor) • Tina burge 10 KAKIEMON: ONLY AN EXPORT PORCELAIN? Melanie Eastburn • Sandra Forbes • Charlotte Daniel McOwan Galloway William Gourlay • Marianne Hulsbosch Jim Masselos • Ann Proctor • Sabrina Snow Christina Sumner 13 TENZIN CHOEGYAL AND THE BRISBANE FESTIVAL OF TIBET DESIGN/layout Tenzin Choegyal and Tarun Nagesh Ingo Voss, VossDesign PRINTING 15 FINE CHINA – NEW DIRECTIONS FOR JINGDEZHEN John Fisher Printing Georgina Hooper Published by The Asian Arts Society of Australia Inc. PO Box 996 Potts Point NSW 2011 18 THE ROLE OF SRI VIJAYA IN EARLY INTERNATIONAL TRADE: www.taasa.org.au 2014 ST LEE LECTURE BY PROFESSOR QIN DASHU Enquiries: [email protected] John Millbank www.facebook.com/taasa.org TAASA Review is published quarterly and is distributed to members 20 IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN: OTAGAKI RENGETSU AT THE NEWCASTLE ART GALLERY of The Asian Arts Society of Australia Inc. TAASA Review welcomes Pamela Bell submissions of articles, notes and reviews on Asian visual and performing arts. All articles are refereed. Additional copies and 21 THE CHINESE JADE CARRIAGE IN BENDIGO GOLDEN DRAGON MUSEUM subscription to TAASA Review are available on request. Robyn Butlin No opinion or point of view is to be construed as the opinion of The Asian Arts Society of Australia Inc., its staff, servants or agents. No claim for loss or damage will be acknowledged by TAASA 22 ASIAN COLLECTIONS IN AUSTRALIA Review as a result of material published within its pages or in other material published by it. We reserve the right to alter 26 BOOK REVIEW: ASIA THROUGH ART AND ANTHROPOLOGY or omit any article or advertisements submitted and require indemnity from the advertisers and contributors against damages Silvia Xavier or liabilities that may arise from material published. All reasonable efforts have been made to trace copyright holders. 27 RECENT TAASA ACTIVITIES TAASA MEMBERSHIP RATES 29 TAASA MEMBERS’ DIARY: DECEMBER 2014 – FEBRUARY 2015 $70 Single (Australia and overseas) $90 Dual (Australia and overseas) $95 Libraries (Australia and overseas) 30 WHAT’S ON: DECEMBER 2014 – FEBRUARY 2015 $35 Concession (full-time students under 26, pensioners and unemployed with ID, Seniors Card not included) Compiled by Tina Burge advertising RATES TAASA Review welcomes advertisements from appropriate companies, institutions and individuals. Rates below are GST inclusive. Back page $850 Full inner page $725 Half page horizontal $484 Third page (vertical or horizontal) $364 Half column $265 Insert $300 For further information re advertising, including discounts for regular quarterly advertising, please contact [email protected] Blue & WHITE PORCELAIN JARS, JINGDEZHEN, CHINA. THE DEADLINE FOR ALL ARTICLES FOR OUR NEXT ISSUE IS 15 DECEMBER 2014 Photo: GEORGINA HOOPER. SEE PP15 - 17 IN THIS ISSUE. THE DEADLINE FOR ALL ADVERTISING FOR OUR NEXT ISSUE IS 1 FEBRuaRY 2015 A FULL INDEX OF ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN TAASA REVIEW SINCE ITS BEGINNINGS IN 1991 IS available ON THE TAASA WEB SITE, WWW.taasa.ORG.au 2 TAASA COMMITTEE EDITORIAL GiLL Green • PRESIDENT Josefa Green, Editor Art historian specialising in Cambodian culture Ann ProCTOR • VICE PRESIDENT While this is not a focus issue, this December This year’s ST Lee Lecture at Sydney Art historian with a particular interest in Vietnam TAASA Review has developed its own distinct University presented by Professor Qin Dashu todd SundermAn • TREASURER flavour, with a number of articles covering from Peking University reminds us of a period Former Asian antique dealer, with a particular interest ceramics from the East Asian region. in the 9th and 10th centuries when China was in Tibetan furniture part of a complex pattern of international trade One reason for this is the excellent symposium in ceramics and other items. John Millbank dy AndreASen • SeCretAry held on 9 August by the TAASA Ceramics provides an excellent overview of Prof Qin’s Has a special interest in Japanese haiku and tanka poetry Study Group to honour Jackie Menzies, talk, which summarised recent research into SIOBHAN CAMPBELL recently retired as Head Curator, Asian Art the role of Sri Vijaya in Sumatra as the entrepôt Lecturer, Indonesian Studies, Sydney University at the AGNSW. The topic was Made to Order: for trade extending from China to West Asia. with an interest in Balinese art Trade Ceramics from East to West, and this issue Josefa GREEN has published articles based on the three For this December issue, we provide a General editor of TAASA Review. Collector of presentations from the symposium. selective survey of eight perhaps less well Chinese ceramics known Asian collections in Australia – Jackie Menzies focuses on Kosometsuke collections you may want to visit in the BORIS KASPIEV ware, underglaze blue and white porcelains holiday period. Pamela Bell covers the Private collector of Asian art with a particular interest exported from China to Japan in the late Newcastle Art Gallery’s modern Japanese in the Buddhist art of the Himalayan region Ming. Made especially for the new practice ceramic collection which she regards as the MIN-JUNG KIM of tea called chanoyu, Kosometsuke ware most distinguished of its kind in Australia. Curator of Asian Arts & Design at the Powerhouse responded to the distinctive tea aesthetic Her article focuses on the work of a somewhat Museum valued by daimyo and tea masters, with its earlier ceramic artist, a sake cup made by the JAMES MacKEAN often eccentric shapes, sparse designs and Buddhist nun Rengetsu, recently donated to Collector of oriental ceramics deliberate artlessness and imperfections. the Newcastle Art Gallery. Natalie SEIZ Porcelains were exported in vast numbers to Robyn Butlin covers the elaborate imperial Assistant Curator, Asian Art, AGNSW with an interest Europe from China and then Japan from the Jade carriage, made of 300 tonnes of carved in modern/contemporary Asian Art 1500s. James MacKean examines a particular green serpentine stone, now displayed in CHRISTINA SUMNER development in the early 18th century when the Bendigo Golden Dragon Museum. Some Former Principal Curator, Design and Society, the supply of Japanese overglazed enamel readers may have seen this carriage when it Powerhouse Museum, Sydney ware dried up in the face of mass produced, was displayed for some years in the Queen lower cost porcelains from China. Because the Victoria Building in Sydney after being gifted MARGARET WHITE demand for Japanese Kakiemon and richer to Australia by the People’s Republic of China Former President and Advisor of the Friends of Museums, Imari styles was still high, English and Dutch for the 1988 Bicentenary. Singapore, with special interest in Southeast Asian art, enamellers started to over-decorate plain ceramics and textiles white or blue and white Chinese pieces in this Two more items round off this issue. Tarun TAASA AMBASSADOR palette, enhancing their value. Nagesh provides an interview with Tenzin Jackie MENZIES Choegyal, the force behind the Festival of Tibet which will run this January at the Emeritus Curator of Asian Art, Art Gallery of NSW. The final presentation by Daniel McOwan, President of TAASA from 1992 – 2000 Director of the Hamilton Art Gallery, rounded Brisbane Powerhouse in Brisbane. In our book off the symposium by providing an overview review, Sylvia Xavier skilfully summarises state representatives of Kakiemon ware, made in Arita in Japan. some of the central ideas presented by AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY Based on an exhibition of 48 high quality 15 contributors, including scholars in the Kakiemon pieces now in the Hamilton fields of anthropology, art history and MELANIE EASTBURN Art Gallery collection, Danny provided an curatorship. Asia through Art and Anthropology Curator of Asian Art, National Gallery of Australia immensely useful description of the various is an exploration of ‘border crossing’ in the types of Kakiemon ware, how and why production, contextualisation and cultural QUEENSLAND they were produced and how they may be analysis of Asian art and, as Sylvia points out, TARUN Nagesh differentiated from each other. its inclusion of the viewpoint of three artists Assistant Curator, Asian Art, QAGOMA from different Asian cultural traditions helps Jingdezhen in Jiangxi Province has been the to ground the discussion. SOUTH AUSTRALIA primary place for porcelain production in JAMES BENNETT China since the Yuan period, and this is still Finally, we devote several pages in this Curator of Asian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia the case today. Georgina Hooper is a painter issue to the many activities held by TAASA and ceramicist who recently spent time there in the last three months. We hope you enjoy VICTORIA as an artist in residence, picking up skills the photos, especially of our very successful CAROL CAINS from local artisans and progressing a number celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Curator Asian Art, National Gallery of Victoria International of her projects. The outcome has been an TAASA Textile Study Group. exhibition in Brisbane this year. I’m sure you will enjoy her reflections on her experiences A very happy and safe festive season to all working in Jingdezhen and on the works in TAASA members. We hope to share another year her exhibition. of stimulating and enjoyable events in 2015. 3 KOSOMETSUKE - OLD BLUE AND WHITE Jackie Menzies MukoZUKE BOWL, C1625-1635, PORCELAIN DECORated WITH UNDERGLAZE Blue, 9.4 X 10.0 CM, AGNSW, GIFT OF MR J.H.
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