Ms Rose Kerr

Career: fell Percival David Fndn of Chinese Art 1976-78; V&A Far Eastern Dept: res asst 1978, asst keeper 1979, keeper 1987; dep keeper V&A Asian Dept, ret 2003; memb: Exec Cncl GB-China Assoc 1989, Cncl Oriental Ceramic Soc (pres), Br Assoc for Chinese Studies, GB-China Educational Tst 1995 (chm); tstee Worcester Porcelain Museum 2008; keeper emeritus Far Eastern Dept V&A 2005; hon assoc Needham Research Inst Cambridge 2003, hon fell Univ of Glasgow 2004

Books and Publications: Kiln Sherds of Ancient China (with P Hughes-Stanton, 1980), Guanyin - A Masterpiece Revealed (with John Larson, 1985), Chinese Ceramics - Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty (1986), Later Chinese Bronzes (1990), Chinese Art and Design (The T T Tsui Gallery of Chinese Art) (ed and contrib, 1991), Ceramic Evolution in the Middle Ming Period (with Rosemary E Scott, 1994), Chinese Qing Dynasty Ceramics in the Collection of England's Victoria & Albert Museum (1996), Blanc de Chine: Porcelain from Dehua (jtly, 2001), Ceramics of the Song Dynasty (2004), Science and Civilisation in China vol 13 no 5: Ceramic Technology (jtly, 2004), Song China Through 21st Century Eyes (2009)