JOURNAL FOR ART MARKET STUDIES (JAMS)
The Journal for Art Market Studies (JAMS) is a peer-reviewed open-access journal for current international research on the art market of all periods. The articles are published in English.
Published by
Forum Kunst und Markt / Centre for Art Market Studies
www.fokum-jams.org
FIFTH ISSUE
Asian Art: Markets, Provenance, History
Volume 2, Number 3, 2018
Guest Editors: Christine Howald and Alexander Hofmann

© Kunstbibliothek, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, photographer: Anna Russ / Cover Design: Amichai Green Grafik
This year’s third issue of the Journal for Art Market Studies is focused on the subject “Asian Art: Markets, Provenance, History” and traces the circumstances and the paths taken by East Asian objects through the art market towards Western collections, be it the porcelain collection of Augustus the Strong, the looting of the Chinese imperial summer palace, or the current market for contemporary art.
Table of Contents
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Gilbert Lupfer
Guest Editorial -
Christine Howald, Alexander Hofmann
Introduction - Ruth Sonja Simonis
How to furnish a Palace. Porcelain acquisitions in the Netherlands for Augustus the Strong, 1716-1718 - Louise Tythacott
Exhibiting and Auctioning Yuanmingyuan („Summer Palace“) Loot in 1860s and 1870s London: The Elgin and Negroni Collections - Akiko Takesue
Private Collection as Collective Operation: Art Dealers’ Impacts on the Formation of the Van Horne Japanese Ceramic Collection - Massimiliano Papini
Emporio Janetti Padre e Figli and the Japanese Art Market in Florence in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century - Anna Pushakova
Buying and selling East Asian art during the first decade after the October Revolution in 1917: museum purchases in Moscow - Britta Bommert
On the Relevance and Potential of Auction Catalogues as Sources for Art Market Research on Asian Art - Patrizia Jirka-Schmitz
The trade in Far Eastern Art in Berlin during the Weimar Republic (1918-1933) - Esther Tisa Francini, Alexandra von Przychowski
Provenance Research into the Collection of Chinese Art at the Museum Rietberg: Switzerland and the transnational history of the art market and art collections - Ilse von zur Mühlen
Finance, Taxes and Provenance: A German Museum Acquisition of Chinese Antiquities in 1935 - Nathalie Neumann
East Asian Art in the Gurlitt Collection: Tracing the Relationship of Objects and Actors - Silke Reuther
Well-Advised by Friends: Philipp F. Reemtsma´s East-Asian Collection - Anita Archer
Genesis of an Auction Sale Category: Sotheby’s Inaugural Auction of ‚Contemporary Chinese Art‘