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- Sir Joseph Hotung
- Also known as
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Sir Joseph Hotung
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primary name: Hotung, Joseph
- Details
- individual; collector; Male
- Life dates
- 1931-2021
- Biography
- Collector, businessman and philanthropist, born in Shanghai and educated in China, the United States and the University of London. A member of numerous public bodies in Hong Kong,Trustee of the British Museum and on the Governing Board of the School of Oriental and African Studies; a member of the Asia Society of New York, Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and involved with the Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC. Assembled a world-class collection of jades, porcelain, bronzes and Ming furniture, as well as fine Impressionist paintings. Sponsored the refurbishment of three galleries at the British Museum: the Sir Joseph Hotung Gallery for China and South Asia, the Sir Joseph Hotung Centre for Ceramic Studies, which includes the Sir Percival David Collection of Chinese ceramics, and the Sir Joseph Hotung Great Court Gallery.
- Bibliography
- J.C.Y. Watt, ‘The Hotung Gallery at the British Museum’, "The Burlington Magazine", vol. 135, no. 1079, 1993, pp. 158-159; Jan Stuart, Carol Michaelson, Stacey Pierson, Rose Kerr, Rosemary Scott, Jessica Harrison-Hall and Regina Krahl, "Arts of Asia", volume 39, number 3; Jan Stuart, Regina Krahl, Jessica Harrison-Hall, Peter Y. K. Lam, Loretta Hogan and Sir Joseph Hotung, "Orientations", 40th Anniversary, November/December 2009; Regina Krahl and Jessica Harrison-Hall, "Chinese Ceramics: Highlights of the Sir Percival David Collection", 2009; Stacey Pierson, "Collectors, Collections and Museums: The Field of Chinese Ceramics in Britain, 1560-1960", 2007, p. 9, 20, 110, 112, 133, 173, 184, 188, 190, 192, 195, 198, 200, 205, 208, 213; Roy Davids and Dominic Jellinek, "PROVENANCE: Collectors, Dealers and Scholars: Chinese Ceramics in Britain and America", 2011, p.242 &243)
