Oriental Ceramic Society

Chinese transitional period blue and white porcelain dish, mid 17th century. Ethnological Museum, Berlin.

The Oriental Ceramic Society (OCS) is one of the leading international societies for the study and appreciation of Asian art, with a special interest in ceramics.[1] However its wider focus is the study and appreciation of all aspects of oriental art, and over the last 90 years has served as one of the main bodies assisting the understanding of oriental art, and oriental ceramics in particular, by means of organising regular meetings, lectures and publications.[2]

  1. ^ Winkworth, W. W., 'Art-history and the Oriental Ceramic Society', The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 89, No. 526 (Jan. 1947), pp. 13–15.
  2. ^ Pierson, S., 'Scholarship and Exhibitions: the Oriental Ceramic Society and its Public Activities, 1921–1945', in Collectors, collections and museums : the field of Chinese ceramics in Britain, 1560–1960 (P. Lang, Oxford/New York, 2007)