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- Dame Jessica Rawson
- Also known as
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Dame Jessica Rawson
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primary name: Rawson, Jessica Mary
- Details
- individual; curator; academic/intellectual; British; Female
- Life dates
- 1943-
- Biography
- Art historican and curator specialising in ancient Chinese art. Appointed as a curator in the Department of Oriental Antiquities of the British Museum in 1967; Deputy Keeper 1976-1987; Keeper 1987-1994. President of the Oriental Ceramic Society 1993-1997. Warden of Merton College, Oxford, 1994-2010; Pro-Vice-chancellor and Professor of Chinese Art and Archaeology at Oxford University.
Publications: "Chinese Ornanment: The Lotus and the Dragon", 1984;
"British Museum Book of Chinese Art", 1992;
(with Evelyn Rawski) "China, The Three Emperors 1662-1795", 2005;
"Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society", (with John Ayers) 'Chinese Jade throughout the Ages' (Exhibition Catalogue), vol. 40, 1973-75, pp. 32-180; ‘Eccentric Bronzes of the Early Western Zhou’, vol. 47, 1982-1983, pp 11-32; (with M. Tite & M. J. Hughes) 'The Export of Tang "sancai" wares: some recent research', vol. 52, 1987-88, pp. 39-62, 23 Pls; 'Contact between Southern China and Henan during the Shang Period', vol. 57, 1992-1993, pp. 1-24, 27 Figs; 'Thinking with Pictures: Tomb Figures in the Chinese View of the Afterlife, vol. 61, 1996-1997, pp. 19-37, 13 Figs; 'China: the Three Emperors 1662-1795' summary of a lecture, vol. 70, 2005-2006, p. 65.
- Bibliography
- Roy Davids and Dominic Jellinek, "PROVENANCE: Collectors, Dealers and Scholars: Chinese Ceramics in Britain and America", 2011, p. 369;