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Liu Xinyuan
Director and Chief Curator, Jingdezhen Research Institute of Ceramic Archaeology, China
Liu Xinyuan, world-renowned authority on Chinese porcelain, is at the center of archaeological excavations at Jingdezhen. He has published many significant studies on ancient Chinese porcelain production, combining evidence from archaeological digs with that found in historical texts.

Jessica Harrison-Hall
Assistant Keeper, Department of Oriental Antiquities, The British Museum, London
Jessica Harrison-Hall is the curator of Chinese pottery and porcelain and the arts of Vietnam. Currently she is writing a catalog of the British Museum's collection of Ming ceramics.

Christiaan Jörg
Head of the section of Oriental Export Porcelain, Groninger Museum, the Netherlands
Dr. Jörg is head of the section of Oriental export porcelain at the Groninger Museum in Groningen and professor of East-West Interactions in Decorative Art at Leiden University. His most recent publication is Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam in 1997.

Jeffrey Munger
Decorative Arts Historian, Boston
Jeffrey Munger is a historian specializing in eighteenth-century Decorative Arts. He spent nearly two decades at the Boston Museum of Fine Art, recently as Associate Curator of European Decorative Arts and Sculpture. His most recent publication is 'A Bouillotte in the Museum of Fine Arts', in Melanges en souvenir d'Elisalex d'Albis.

Letitia Roberts
Senior Vice-President and Senior International Specialist, Porcelain Department, Sotheby's, New York
Rigorous cataloguer and specialist in European porcelain, Letitia Roberts has been associated with Sotheby's for thirty-one years, joining the European Ceramics Department in 1973. In addition to writing articles for publications, Ms. Roberts participates in television programs as an antiques specialist, and is active in national and international porcelain circles.

Clare Le Corbeiller
Curator, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Clare Le Corbeiller is the author of China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, published by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1974. Since then she has written and lectured extensively on Continental and export porcelain, often with a focus on cross-cultural influences. In addition to her curatorial post, she is presently a member of the visiting faculty of The Bard Graduate Center.

Sebastian Kuhn
Director, Ceramics and Glass, Sotheby's, London
Sebastian Kuhn joined the European Ceramics Department at Sotheby's in 1990, and has worked with several important single-owner European ceramics and porcelain collections. Mr. Kuhn has also contributed to the Encyclopedia of Antiques and the Millers Antiques Encyclopedia.

James Lally
President, J.J. Lally & Co., New York
Following nearly two decades of leadership with Sotheby’s Chinese art departments in London and New York, as a director of Sotheby’s Hong Kong, and concluding as president of Sotheby’s North America, Mr. Lally established his own firm, J.J. Lally & Company Oriental Art, in 1984. The works exhibited and sold at J.J. Lally & Co. contribute significantly to international private and museum collections, and the firm is one of the leading galleries for Chinese art in America.