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SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art Co-convenor, Arts of China module
Qualifications
MA (SOAS) PHD (SOAS)
Email address
ic24@soas.ac.uk
Thesis title
Collecting Chinese Art in Hong Kong during the 20th Century: Appropriation and Location

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Dr Ivy Yi Yan Chan is the co-convenor of the Arts of China module at the SOAS-Alphawood Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art. 

She completed her PhD in History of Art and Archaeology at SOAS, studying the history of Chinese art collecting in Hong Kong. As an independent scholar, curator and consultant, she has worked for Eskenazi Ltd., the Museum of East Asian Art and the Hong Kong Palace Museum. She regularly lectures at SOAS, Christie’s Education and the V&A Academy on topics related to Chinese art and East Asian culture. 

She previously spent over a decade at Christie's, where she served in the Chinese Art Department as a Chinese Art Specialist, Head of Sale, and Associate Director.

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Book

  • Luodian (Mother-of-Pearl Inlay), K11 Craft & Guild Foundation (2023)

Book chapter

  • ‘From Ming Imperial Wine Cups to Twentieth-Century Collectibles: the Chenghua ‘‘Chicken Cups’’ in the Collections of Sir Percival David and Edward T. Chow’, in Visual, Material and Textual Cultures of Food and Drink in China, 200 BCE-1900 CE, ed. Stacey Pierson, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2022), pp. 238-273

Catalogue

  • The Splendour of Chinese Art: The K Collection, OM Publishing Ltd. (2024)

Article

  • ‘The Oriental Ceramic Society and Global Collecting’, Arts of Asia, Winter 2021

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Ming and Qing ceramics, jade carving, bamboo carving, mother-of-pearl inlaid lacquerware, collecting histories, Hong Kong history

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