Study Day (Part 1) - Musée Cernuschi

Study Day - The Art and Culture of Tea in East Asia (Part 1)

9 am.

Welcome and introduction

with Mael Bellec, curator, in charge of the Chinese and Korean collections of the Musée Cernuschi

I. 9.30 am.

Tea : production and diffusion

1. 9.30 am.

The history of tea: a painting from Wu Zuoren (in French)

with Mael Bellec, curator, in charge of the Chinese and Korean collections of the Musée Cernuschi

2. 9.50 am.

From Leaf to Legacy: The Origins and Rise of Tea Culture in Ancient China (in English)

with Livio Zanini, associate professor, department of Asian and North African studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 

10.10 am.

Questions time

II. 10.20 am.

Tea use and material productions

3. 10.20 am.

Ceramic in tea items from the Tang to the Yuan (in french)

with Catherine Despeux, honorary professor from the Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (INALCO)

4. 10.40 am.

Tea in the Ming Dynasty: The Rise of Steeping and the Emergence of the Teapot (in english)

with Livio Zanini, associate professor, Department of Asian and North African studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice 

11 am.

Questions time followed by a pause

5. 11.20 am.

Ōtagaki Rengetsu, artist (1791-1875) - in french

with Michel Maucuer, former chief curator at the Musée Guimet and the Musée Cernuschi

6. 11.40 am.

The Annam ambassador's personal tea service, Phan Thanh Giân, at the Musée de Sèvres (Bat Tràng, end of the 18th century) - in french

with Philippe Truong, independent researcher 

7. 12 pm. Ch’ado 茶道: Tea Korean tradition in Koryŏ and Chosŏn (in french)

with Elisabeth Chabanol, manager of the Centre de l’Ecole française d’Extrême-Orient in Seoul (ROK) and director of the Mission archéologique franco-nord-coréenne in Kaesong (DPRK)

12.20 pm.

Questions time

12.30 pm.

Lunch break

III. 2 pm. Japan and the tea ceremony

8. 2 pm.

Silence and resonance: tea ceremony in Japan (in french)

with Pierre Gautier, in charge of the Japanese collections of the Musée Cernuschi

9. 2.20 pm.

The unique architecture of Japanese pavilions and tea gardens (in french)

with Philippe Bonnin, Emeritus Research Director of the CNRS, founder of the JAPARCHI network

2.40 pm.

Questions time followed by a pause

IV. 3 pm. The diffusion of tea in Asia and around the world

10. 3 pm. 

The language of tea and its implications for the diffusion of the beverage (in english) 

with Victor Mair, professor of Chinese Language and Literature at the University of Pennsylvania 

11. 15h20 

The trade routes of tea: from the land and sea silk routes to the “horse routes”

with Monique Crick, former director of the Fondation Baur, musée des arts d’Extrême-Orient, and president of the SFECO

12. 3.40 pm. 

Ceramics and tea drinking in Britain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (in english)

with Aileen Dawson, DLitt (Oxon), FSA, former curator in the Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory, British Museum 

13. 4 pm.

The Tea Book, a reliable source on cha no yu? – Okakura Tenshin in the history of tea perception, in Japan and elsewhere (in french)

with Arthur Mitteau, maître de conférences, chercheur titulaire à l’IrAsia // Arthur Mitteau, University lecturer, full researcher at IrAsia

4.20 pm.

Questions time, end of the day