Roxanna Brown Ceramics

Roxanna brown the author was a l southeast asia has a tradition of producing ceramics that stretches back to neolithic times.

Roxanna brown ceramics. Their dating and identification 2nd edition singapore oxford university press 1988. I have known roxanna since she first came to singapore in the 1970s to study asian ceramics in between trips to cover the vietnam war. The case has sent shock waves through the international art collectingcommunity. Shipwreck ceramics and the fall of melaka recently discovered shipwrecks are casting new light on southeast asian history.

That s where this book comes in. Brown 62 the director of the southeast asian ceramics museum in bangkok and a world authority on ancient southeast asian ceramics flew to seattle washington to speak at the university of washington. The ceramics of south east asia. Roxanna maude brown may 2 1946 may 14 2008 was a prominent authority on southeast asian ceramics and director of the bangkok university s southeast asian ceramics museum.

Bhumadhon phuthorn ceramics of the dvaravati period in early thailand 6th to 10th centuries a d paper read at the field museum s and acro s asian ceramics conference may 1996. Summary of a talk given by roxanna brown director of the southeast asian ceramics museum to the southeast asian ceramic society west malaysia branch at muzium negara kuala lumpur on 21 july 2007. I first met her in 1975. In 1982 i sat with her in a bangkok clinic after doctors cut off a leg.

Roxanna brown was introduced by ucla art historian robert brown no relative who described her as one of the two or three people who created the field of southeast asian ceramics roxanna brown s special interest is the fourteenth fifteenth and sixteenth centuries high points of asian plate and vase making arts. Because the differences between the wide varieties of ceramics can in some cases be difficult to spot it s useful to have the help of an experienced eye to figure out what you re seeing. In memoriam roxanna brown. Roxanna brown came to south east asia as a jour nalist graduate from co lumbia university in 1968.

After vietnam roxanna lived simply in thailand. Five days later she was dead in a federal jail. Free shipping on qualifying offers. Seacsadmin seacsadmin 2 19 pm june 15th 2020.

She worked from saigon and travelled around what was then south vietnam in the early 1970s taking an ever deeper interest into the traditional ceramics of vietnam and visiting the identified kiln sites. Their dating and identification oxford in asia studies in ceramics. The ceramics of south east asia.