Zoom Webinar, Four Centuries of Blue & White

If you missed our recent special webinar with renowned decorative arts expert Becky MacGuire, author of Four Centuries of Blue & White: The Frelinghuysen Collection of Chinese & Japanese Export Porcelain, you can watch it now on our website by clicking the link below!

Moderated by Lark Mason, Jr., this engaging discussion with Ms. MacGuire delved into the evolving commercial and cultural exchanges between East and West, with a particular focus on the collection’s rare, unusual and little-studied material. The extraordinary Frelinghuysen collection, assembled carefully over 50 years, features an exceptionally wide array of Asian blue and white export porcelain—that most ubiquitous and influential of all ceramics. Ranging from rarities made at the height of the Ming dynasty, when Europeans first sailed to Asia, to commissions executed for the Thai royal court in the last decades of the Qing dynasty, the collection goes beyond iconic export classics to include pieces made for markets from Japan to the Islamic world.

Watch now by clicking here!