Collecting Later Chinese Bronzes for the Scholar’s Studio

Apr 16, 2025

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Collecting Later Chinese Bronzes for the Scholar’s Studio

Author and collector Paul Bromberg will discuss collecting Asian art and specifically later bronzes produced for the Chinese scholar’s studio. Utilising examples from museum collections and his own exceptional collection, he will explain the form and function of these utilitarian, yet aesthetically pleasing, bronze objects, and provide tips on dating and how to identify reproductions. He will also discuss his latest book, “Later Chinese Bronzes for the Scholar’s Studio: The Bromberg Collection”, published by Arts of Asia Publications Ltd (2025).

About the speaker

Paul Bromberg is a contributing editor to Arts of Asia magazine and the former editor of the Journal of the Siam Society (2012–2023). He is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society, a lifetime member respectively of The Siam Society and the Southeast Asian Ceramics Society, and writes and lectures regularly about Thai and Chinese art and antiques. Resident in Asia since 1985, he read Modern Chinese Studies at the University of Leeds, and also studied at Fudan University, Shanghai, and Xiamen University, Fujian province, China. He is the author of Later Chinese Bronzes for the Scholar’s Studio (Arts of Asia, 2025) and THAI SILVER and Nielloware (River Books, 2019).

When

Thursday, 4 September 2025 at 19:00

Where

Lecture Room, 4/Floor, The Siam Society

Admission

Members and Students (to undergraduate level) — Free of charge
Non-Members — THB 300

For more information, please contact

To book your place, please contact Khun Pinthip at 02 661 6470-3 ext 203 or pinthip@thesiamsociety.org

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