About
Nicholas Grindley LLC deals primarily in Chinese furniture and scholar's objects and also, less frequently, in Japanese and Korean furniture.
Nicholas Grindley LLC deals primarily in Chinese furniture and scholar's objects and also, less frequently, in Japanese and Korean furniture.
Nicholas Grindley
was born in England in 1951. For over 45 years now he has been dealing and researching Chinese art with particular interest in furniture and works of art. During most of this time he has conducted his business as a private dealer although since 1998 he has published two catalogues a year, and exhibited in London, New York and Hong Kong; many works from these exhibitions and his other dealing activities are in museums and private collections through-out the world. In 1996 he contributed to the catalogue of the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection of Chinese Furniture and in 1999 he co-wrote with Robert Jacobsen the catalogue of Classical Chinese Furniture in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. In 2004 he wrote the catalogue for the collection of Dr. Ignazio Vok that was exhibited at the Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst in Cologne. In 2007 he contributed the entry on Chinese furniture for, ‘The Seventy Wonders of China,’ published by Thames & Hudson. He is asked by museums in the US and Europe to advise on the acquisition, disposal, cataloging and re-attribution of Chinese furniture in their collections. He continues to deal privately in Chinese art.
Rebecca Gardner
has worked with Nicholas Grindley since December 1995. She has a background in Art Collection Management. After graduating with a degree in History and Archaeology she worked at the Museum of London with the Registrar, training in all areas of Collection Management. Before working with us, she worked for Fred Koch, cataloguing and managing his extensive fine art and antiques collection housed in several properties around the world including Sutton Place in Surrey. Rebecca deals with the daily management and all the administration of the company, as well as assisting in research and cataloguing of the inventory.
Nicholas Grindley Photography of China website
We have decided to close down the website for Nicholas Grindley Photography of China and to simply collect within this area, if you have photographs of mainland China prior to 1900 that you would like to sell please contact Nick at [email protected]
Museums and Collections
During the 40 years that Nicholas Grindley has been dealing in Chinese furniture and works of art, we have placed numerous objects with major private collectors and museums. Works of art purchased through us are now in the following collections:
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Asian Civilisations Museum, Singapore
Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, California
British Museum, London
The Burrell Collection, Glasgow
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Danish Museum of Art and Design, Copenhagen
The Gardiner Museum, Toronto
Guanfu Museum, Beijing
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Liang Yi Museum, Hong Kong
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Vermont
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Museum fur Lackkunst, Munster
Museum fur Ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne
Nelson - Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
National Gallery of New Zealand, Wellington
Peabody Essex Museum of Salem, Massachusetts
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
The Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh
Seattle Art Museum, Washington
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut