About twenty years ago, a close friend gave me a book that he had found at the Bouquinistes of Paris (booksellers of Paris) along the banks of the River Seine. “Vive la chine”, memoires d’un antiquaire by Jacques Helft was published in 1955. This book has been translated to English as Treasure hunt, Memoirs of […]
INTERESTING LISTING OF KOREAN COLLECTIONS IN AMERICAN MUSEUMS: https://www.museum.go.kr/site/eng/exhiForeignMuseum/list/all WEISMAN ART MUSEUM – Minneapolis, MN The collection includes about 200 examples of Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) furniture, 80 Silla dynasty (668–935 B.C.) stoneware pieces, some 150 folk paintings and wooden bowls and utensils, in addition to other folk arts and crafts. The collection came to the […]