Arts of Asia

Publisher and Editor: Robin Markbreiter ArtS\"'Of Asia Senior Graphic Designer: Bonny Ko The Foremost International Asian Arts and Antiques Magazine Marketing Director: Lauren Long Circulation: Francis Wong, Kelly Lee SUMMER Cover: Kingfisher feather headdress Contributing Editors: 2023 Mid-19th century Paul Bromberg, Sheila Canby, Gold, semi-precious stones Guo Fuxiang, Julian Harding, Contents and kingfisher feathers Jessica Harrison-Hall, China Rose Kerr, Denise Patry Leidy, Depth 19 cm, width 22 cm Kerry Nguyen-Long, Colin Sheaf, The Teresa Coleman Coll ection Jan Stuart, Ming Wilson Lamqua (1801-1860) Information concerning advertising may be or hi s studio, obtained from the Advertising Coordinator Portrait ofLu Guangheng, Arts of Asia, 801 Tesbury Centre, known as Mouqua (1792-1843) 28 Queen's Road East, Wanchai, Hong Kong. Circa 1841 Tel: 852-2376-2228, Fax: 852-2376-3713 Oil on Canvas in gilt-wood frame E-mail: info@ artsofasia.com Guangzhou Website: www.artsofasia.com Height 46 cm, width 41.2 cm www.facebook.com/artsofasia www.instagram.com/artsofasiam3.gazine Anthony J. Hardy C_ollection The description and attribution EDITORIAL ROBTI\\ ]\\l(AR KBREfTER 4 of pieces advertised are the sole responsibility of advertisers TEFAF MAASTRICHT 2023 PAUL BROMBERG 10 Contributors CULTURAL CREATIVITY IN JESSICA HARRISON-HALL 28 19TH CENTURY CHINA 38 JESSICA HARRISON-HALL is Head of the China 48 section, Curator of the Sir Percival David Col- TRADITIONAL WEAPONS PETER DEKKER 55 lection, Curator of the C hinese Ceramics and OF THE LATE QING Decorative Arts at the British Museum. She 65 has published mostly on the material culture of MA YONGZHEN: \"HE FOUGHT PAUL BEVAN China and its global connections. Her latest WITH HIS FISTS IN THE CAPITALS, project is an Arts and Humanities Research NORTH AND SOUTH\" Council proj ect to investigate creativity and resilience in C hina's long 19th centur y. FROM COURTESANS TO FEMALE STUDENTS: \\I\\IENYUAN XIN WOMEN IN PUBLIC IN LATE QING CHINA PETER DEKKER is a n a ntique arms researcher and dealer. He has had a passio n for Qing FROM HEAVENLY IMAGE TO EARTHLY CH r-LYKN LIN weapons since his student days. He is also a SPECTACLE: MONUMENTAL HANGINGS practising archer in the Manchu tradition and OF THEATRICAL FIGURES IN enthusiastic collector of a rchery equipment 19TH CENTURY CHINA from this culture. He is based in Haarlem, the Netherlands. ETERNAL ENLIGHTENMENT: THE HILDA MAK 80 VIRTUAL WORLD OF JIAJING EMPEROR SUSAN L. BENINGSON 9] PAUL BEVAN is Departmental Lecturer in Mod- ern Chinese Literature and Culture at the SUMMONING MEMORIES: KATHARII\\E BUTLER 106 University of Oxford. From 2018 to 2020 he ART BEYOND CHINESE TRADITIONS HING C HAO AND worked as C hristensen Fellow in Chinese Paint- ISABELLE FRANK 117 ing at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford. His DATES AND DEBATES: SIR MICHAEL research concerns the impact of Western art BUTLER'S CATEGORISATION OF and literature on China during the Republican PORCELAIN FROM THE CHONGZHEN period. His latest book is a translation of The AND SHUNZHI REIGNS AND THE Adventures of Ma Suzhen: An Heroic Woman Takes ROLE OF RECENT RESEARCH INTO Revenge in Shanghai, the story of the fictional DATED PIECES OF THE 17TH CENTURY sister of Ma Yongzhen, recently published by Palgrave Macmillan. HUNTERS, WARRIORS, SPIRITS: NOMADIC ART OF NORTH CHINA WENY UAN XI N joined the British Museum in 2014 and worked on major projects including SALEROOM NEWS JUL!AI\\ KING 130 \"Ming: 50 years that cha nged China\" and the Sir J oseph Hotung Gallery of China a nd South Sotheby's New York: Asia Week Sales Asia proj ect and is currently the project curator on March 21st- 22nd, 2023 for China 1800s at the British Museum. BOOK REVIEW JAMES BENNETT 133 CH I-LYNN LIN is a Ph.D. student in the De- Masks of Bali: Between Heaven and Hell partment of Art History at the U niversity of Wisconsin-Madison. H er research interest is COLLECTORS WORLD . DAVID PALY 136 material culture of ritual objects in late imperial The David Paly Global Ikat Collection China. She is working on object arrangement for ritual spaces, including fabric, glass and tem- SUBSCRIPTION FORM 140 porary installations. Arts of Asia is published four times a year by Arts of Asia Publications Ltd\" 801 Tesbury Centre,. 28 HILDA MAK is a Curator at the Hong Kong Oueen's Road East Wanchai Hong Kong. Telephone: 852-2376-2228 . racsimile: 852-2376-3, 13. Museum of Art (HKMoA). Her recent curato- £':mail: [email protected]. \\-Vebsite: www.artsofasia.com. Printed by_EleJ;ance Printing_ and Book rial credits have included \"Honouring Tradi- Binding Co ..Ltd, Block A, 4/F Hoi Bun Indu strial Building, 6 Wing Yip Street, Kwun Tong, Kow- tion and Heritage: Min Chiu Society at Sixty\" loon , H~mg ~ong. All pictures and tran_sparencies arc subm 1_ttccl at tl1cir owner's risk ~nd we. ca~not (2021 ), \"#popcolours: The Aesthetics of Hues accept haoil1ty for loss or damage. All nghts reserved, copynght © 2023 b_y Arts of Asrn Pubhcallons in Antiquities from the HKMoA Collection\" Ltd. Overseas subscription rates: for pnnt one year US$105/HK$820. 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dney L. Moss Ltd. Chinese and Japanese Att Oliver Moss, Joost van den Bergh Sydney L. Moss Ltd together, which is preferable from this author's perspective, Guus Roell and Dickie Zebregs, as part of the enjoyment of the fair is the incredible variety Zebregs&Roel l Fine Art & Antiques passing from one stand to the next. Summer 2023 While it is difficult to know how everyone got on at this year's fair- some dealers reportedly did extraordinarily well, some merely covered their costs while others lost money on the event- this author's main takeaway from TEFAF Maastricht 2023 is that there is still an important place for this type of high-end art and antiques fair. Despite the recent well-publicised cancellation of art fairs in the UK and people becoming increasingly accustomed to view- ing and buying art online during the pandemic, there is simply no comparison to a live event. People from all walks of life still enjoy dressing in their finest, mixing with others of similar interests and having a special day out, viewing, learning about and acquiring in person the finest art and antiques available. For these masons, the future of the art fair remains secure, at least in the near term. Paul Bromberg is the serving editor ef the Journal of the Siam Society and a contributing editor to Arts of Asia. He read Modern Chinese Studies at the University ef Leeds, and studied at Fudan University and Xiamen University, China. Resident in Bangkok since 1997, he writes regular!:J about Thai art and is the author efTHAI SILVER and Nielloware (River Books, 2019). 13