Stacey Pierson

Stacey Pierson is Reader in 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 President of the Oriental Ceramic Society (London) and series editor for the Routledge series Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1550-1950. Previously, from 1995 – 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 and the history of collecting and exhibitions. In 2007 she published Collectors, Collections and Museums: the Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain: 1560-1960 (Peter Lang), followed by Chinese Ceramics: a Design History (V&A Publications) in 2009 and ‘The Movement of Chinese Ceramics: Appropriation in Global History’, Journal of World History 23, no. 1, (2012). In 2013 she published From Object to Concept: Global Consumption and the Transformation of Ming Porcelain (Hong Kong University Press) and her most recent book is Private Collecting, Exhibitions and the Shaping of Art History in London: the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1866-1950 (Routledge, 2017) which examines an influential art collecting group in London that played a key role in the intellectual development of Chinese ceramics and other collecting fields through display. She is currently preparing a monograph on the archaeology of porcelain.

Affiliations

• Association for Art History
• College Art Association
• Oriental Ceramic Society
• Society for the History of Collections
• Royal Society of Arts
• Sir Percival David Foundation council

Education

• PhD University of Sussex (1999 — 2004)
• MA SOAS University of London (1992 — 1993)
• BA Loyola Marymount University (1984 — 1988)

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, Shane (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. London: 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 (2021) 'A Collecting Friendship: Sir Percival David, Oscar Raphael, and the Oriental Ceramic Society'. Orientations, (52) 6, pp 36-42.

Pierson, Stacey (2021) 'Fragments of China: Destruction, Location and the Collecting of Chinese Architectural Remains in 19th- century Britain'. Transactions of the Oriental Ceramics Society, (85), pp 37-50.

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.