An Ocean Odyssey, the Adventure of Chinese Ceramics

Collection of Ambassador and Mrs Charles Müller

19 February 2010 - 1 August 2010

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This exhibition presents a selection of choice pieces from the collection of Chinese export ceramics of Ambassador and Mrs Charles Müller, displayed in a wider cultural context along with navigational instruments, engravings and old books, sculptures and models of boats lent by various Geneva museums. The trip ends with a reconstitution of the deck of a junk, laden with spices and jars, tin ingots and gongs salvaged from the ocean depths.

Around the exhibition

Public tours at 18.30 PM on the following Wednesdays:
March 10^th and 24^th, April 14^th and 28^th, May 19^th, June 2^nd, 16^th and 30^th

Conferences (upon inscription) at 18.30 PM at the Baur Foundation
Price: 10 CHF (free for the Friends of the Museum)

• Thursday March 18^th
  Monique Crick, Sur la route de Cathay, à la recherche des épices et des porcelaines
• Thursday April 22^nd
  Monique Crick, Nefs et galions portugais en Mer de Chine, le commerce de la porcelaine chinoise au XVI^e siècle
• Thursday May 27^th
  Monique Crick, La Compagnie hollandaise des Indes et les porcelaines « kraak », de la fin du XVI^e siècle à la première moitié du XVII^e siècle