Rufus Bird
Rufus Bird is Deputy Surveyor of the Queen’s Works of Art at Royal Collection Trust
A closer look at the Chinese and Japanese masterpieces in the Royal Collection
More than 2,000 objects of porcelain, lacquer, jade, enamel and ivory have been catalogued, researched, conserved, and photographed
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