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Professor Stacey Pierson

Visiting Scholar, Department of Fine Arts and Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Professor of the History of Chinese Ceramics at SOAS, University of London

Professor Stacey Pierson is the 2025 Visiting Scholar at the Department of Fine Arts and the Institute of Chinese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, sponsored by the Bei Shan Tang Foundation. She is Professor of the History of Chinese Ceramics at SOAS, University of London. In addition to teaching and supervising research students in the School of Arts, she is also the former President of the Oriental Ceramic Society (London) and is series editor for the Routledge title Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1550–1950. Previously, from 1995 to 2007, she was Curator of the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, also at the University of London, which housed the world-renowned David collection of Chinese ceramics. She has published widely on aspects of Chinese ceramics, Percival David and the history of collecting and exhibitions, including Collectors, Collections and Museums: the Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain: 1560–1960 (2007), Chinese Ceramics: a Design History (2009), From Object to Concept: Global Consumption and the Transformation of Ming Porcelain (2013), Private Collecting, Exhibitions and the Shaping of Art History in London: the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1866–1950 (2017) and the edited volume Visual, Material and Textual Cultures of Food and Drink in China, 200 BCE–1900 CE, Colloquies on Art and Archaeology in Asia, no. 25 (2022). Her most recent research project focused on Dr Johnson’s Chinese teapot, which is currently on display in the British Museum.