The Elizabeth Allen Visiting Scholars in Art History lecture series presents a talk by Stacey Pierson, Ph.D., Professor of History of Chinese Ceramics  at SOAS, University of London. 

This lecture will introduce the ceramics as a type, address the shared histories of trade and consumption, and explore the impact of design movements such as Chinoiserie on collecting and display practices.

This event has been organized as part of the NIU School of Art and Design’s art history division’s courses ARTH 457 and ARTH 585 and is also free and open to the public.

The lecture is streamed and can be viewed in Art Building 102 or via this Zoom link: https://niu-edu.zoom.us/meeting/register/zL6K2hv1TXanStnx7VfgMg 

About Stacey Pierson, PhD

In addition to teaching and supervising research students in the School of Arts, Dr. Pierson is 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 – 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). She has just completed a biography of Percival David that will be published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press in late 2026.