Dr Stacey Pierson

Department of History of Art and Archaeology, School of Arts

Reader in the History of Chinese Ceramics

SOAS Food Studies Centre

Member

Name:: Dr Stacey Pierson
Email address:: sp17@soas.ac.uk
Telephone:: 020 7898 4441
Address:: SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Building:: Brunei Gallery
Office No:: B308
Academic Support Hours:: Wednesdays, 10-12; other times by email request

Teaching

Programmes Convened

Modules Taught

PhD Students supervised

Ai Fukunaga, A Different Type of Tea? British Collecting of Ceramics for Tea gatherings from Meiji Japan: the British Museum and Maidstone Museum Collections
Arjmand Aziz Ahmad, Contemporary Indigenous Australian art and private display histories in London
Chih-En Chen, The Origin, Development and Classification of Trompe L’oeil Porcelain in High Qing China
Chun-I Lin, Ceramic Tomb Figurines in the Chang’an Area from the 4th to the 7th Century: A Critical Study of Classification, Origins and Functions
Elizabeth Reid, An investigation into the meaning and significance of the exhibitions of Chinese art at the Whitechapel Art Gallery between 1901 and 1934
Helen Glaister, Collecting in Public and Private: The Ionides Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain, 1920-1970
Ivy Chan, Collecting Chinese Art in Hong Kong during the 20th Century: Appropriation and Location
Kexin Ma, Portraits of Objects: Emperor Yongzheng's 'Guwan tu' and the Agency of Artefacts across Media
Kristin Scheel, 13th - 14th Century Yuan and Mongol Silk-Gold Textiles: Transcultural consumption and reception in the Mongol Empire and in Europe
Lesley S Pullen,
Miranda Bruce-Mitford, From Natural History to Wayang: The Collections and Collecting Practices of Thomas Stamford Raffles
Saw Tun Lin, The significance of glazed ceramics in the economic life and trade networks of the Buddhist kingdoms of Myanmar in the 14th to 18th century
Xiaoxin Li, Rethinking Guang shi jia ju (Cantonese style furniture): A Design History of Mid 18th Century to early 20th Century
Yuet Heng (Janet) Wong, The Public Disseminations of Chao Shao-an (1905-1998)’s Art and the Construction of Geographical Identities among Cantonese communities across Asia-Pacific, c. 1950s-2010s.

Research

The art history, archaeology and technology of Chinese ceramics, including export wares; the movement of Chinese ceramics and its impacts; the history of collecting Asian art and its display in Britain.

Expertise

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Available for

TV
Radio
Press
Briefings
Special Study Programmes
Short Term Consultancy
Long Term Consultancy

Regional Expertise

East Asia

Country Expertise

China

Languages

Publications

Authored Books

Pierson, Stacey (2017) Private Collecting, Exhibitions and the Shaping of Art History in London: the Burlington Fine Arts Club. New York, NY: Routledge.

Pierson, Stacey (2013) From Object to Concept: Global Consumption and the Transformation of Ming Porcelain. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press.

Pierson, Stacey (2009) Chinese Ceramics: A Design History. London: V&A Publications.

Pierson, Stacey (2007) Collectors, Collections and Museums: the Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain, 1560-1960. Oxford; New York: Peter Lang.

Pierson, Stacey (2004) Underglaze Blue and Copper Red Decorated Porcelains, Section 3. London: Percival David Foundation.

Pierson, Stacey and McCausland, M. (2003) Song Ceramics: Objects of Admiration. London: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art.

Pierson, Stacey (2002) A Collector's Vision: Ceramics for the Qianlong Emperor. London: School of Oriental and African Studies.

Pierson, Stacey (2001) Designs as Signs: Decoration and Chinese Ceramics. Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art.

Pierson, Stacey and Crick, Monique (2000) Sunken Treasure: Fifteenth Century Chinese Ceramics from the Lena Cargo. London: Periplus.

Articles

Pierson, Stacey (2019) 'True or False? Defining the Fake in Chinese Porcelain'. Les Cahiers de Framespa, (31).

Pierson, Stacey (2015) 'Authentic Ceramics with Fake Reign Marks: Characterizing Xuanhe Nian Zhi Wares of the Qing Dynasty'. Orientations, (46) 8.

Pierson, Stacey (2013) 'Interrelations Between Song and Yuan Ceramics from Southern and Northern Kilns: Shapes, Colors and Decoration'. Misuljaryo 美術资料, pp 31-45.

Pierson, Stacey (2012) 'The Movement of Chinese Ceramics: Appropriation in Global History'. Journal of World History, (23) 1, pp 9-39.

Pierson, Stacey (2011) 'The History of the London Oriental Ceramic Society, 1921-1947, part 2'. Diancang 典藏, (221), pp 132-139.

Pierson, Stacey (2011) 'The History of the London Oriental Ceramic Society, 1921-1947, part 1'. Diancang 典藏, (220), pp 152-159.

Pierson, Stacey (2010) 'On Location: Situating Chinese Ceramics'. Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, (73), pp 91-106.

Pierson, Stacey (2008) 'From the Daguan lu to the Shiqu baoji: Chinese Art Catalogues of the 18th century'. Autour des collections d’art en Chine au XVIIIe siècle, Hautes Études Orientales-Extrême-Orient, (8) 44, pp 73-94.

Pierson, Stacey (2007) 'Sir Percival David: An Academic Collector'. Orientations, pp 91-94.

Pierson, Stacey (2004) 'Special Commissions: Dedicatory Inscriptions on Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain'. Orientations, pp 18-23.

Pierson, Stacey (2002) 'Chinese Art and the Institutional Framing of University Collections'. The University of Hong Kong Museum Journal, (vol. 1), pp 526-30.

Pierson, Stacey (2000) 'Precious Blue: Cobalt in Chinese Ceramic Glazes and Decoration'. Taoci 1, pp 33-40.

Edited Books or Journals

Pierson, Stacey, (ed.), (2009) Transfer: the Influence of China on World Ceramics. London: SOAS, Percival David Foundation. (Colloquies on the Art and Archaeology in Asia).

Pierson, Stacey and Wilson, Ming, (eds.), (2006) The Art of the Book in China. London: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. (Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia).

Pierson, Stacey, (ed.), (1996) Earth, Fire and Water: Chinese Ceramic Technology. London: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, School of Oriental and African Studies.

Book Chapters

Pierson, Stacey (2019) 'Chinese porcelain, the East India Company and British cultural identity, 1600-1800'. In: Bentley, Tamara H, (ed.), Picturing Commerce In and From the East Asian Maritime Circuits, 1550-1800. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, pp 275-292.

Pierson, Stacey (2018) '"True Beauty of Form and Chaste Embellishment": Summer Palace Loot and Chinese Porcelain Collecting in Nineteenth-century Britain'. In: Tythacott, Louise, (ed.), Collecting and Displaying China's "Summer Palace" in the West. The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, pp 72-86.

Pierson, Stacey (2017) 'Production, Distribution, and Aesthetics: Abundance and Chinese Porcelain from Jingdezhen, 1350-1800 AD'. In: Smith, Monica, (ed.), Abundance: the Archaeology of Plenitude. Boulder, CO: University Press of Colorado, pp 229-250.

Pierson, Stacey (2014) 'Reinventing “China”: Provenance, Categories and the Collecting of Chinese Ceramics, 1910-2009'. In: Steuber, Jason and Lai, Guolong, (eds.), Collectors, Collections and Collecting the Art of China: Histories and Challenges. Florida, USA: University Press of Florida.

Pierson, Stacey (2011) 'From Market and Exhibition to University: Sir Percival David and the Institutionalization of Chinese Art History in England'. In: Rujivacharakul, Vimalin, (ed.), Collecting China: the World, China, and a History of Collecting. Delaware, USA: University of Delaware Press, pp 130-137.

Pierson, Stacey (2010) 'Historical and Cultural Contexts for Ceramics in China'. In: Torchia, Richard, (ed.), Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn: ceramic works, 5000 BCE -- 2010 CE. Pennsylvania: Arcardia University Art Gallery, pp 96-103.

Pierson, Stacey (2008) 'Regional Specialization in Ceramic Production of the Northern Sung Period'. Conference on Founding Paradigms: Papers on the Art and Culture of the Northern Sung Dynasty. Taipei: National Palace Museum, pp 759-776.

Pierson, Stacey (2007) 'Porcelain'. In: Fenby, Jonathan, (ed.), The Seventy Wonders of China. London: Thames and Hudson, pp 217-221.

Pierson, Stacey (2004) 'The Sung Standard: Chinese Ceramics and British Studio Pottery in the 20th Century'. Song Ceramics: Art History, Archaeology and Technology. London: Percival David Foundation, pp 81-103.

Pierson, Stacey (2004) ''The Sung Standard': Chinese Ceramics and British Studio Pottery in the 20th Century'. In: Pierson, S., (ed.), Song Ceramics. Art History, Archaeology and Technology. London: Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, pp 81-102.

Pierson, Stacey (2002) 'Industrial Ceramics in China: Ceramic Production at Jingdezhen from the 10th to the 16th century'. Lost at Sea: The Strange Route of the Lena Shoal Junk. London: Periplus.

Pierson, Stacey (2000) 'Ceramics'. In: Trench, Lucy, (ed.), Materials and Techniques in the Decorative Arts: an Illustrated Dictionary. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.