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About Robert Lockhart Hobson
Robert Lockhart Hobson CB was a British civil servant and antiquarian. He was keeper of the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography at the British Museum and an authority on Far Eastern ceramics. He was noted for his cataloguing which The Times described as establishing firm facts for what had previously been "surmise and unproved tradition" and he was highly influential through his writing in the elevation of Chinese ceramics from craft works to the status of objects of fine art. He was president of the Oriental Ceramic Society from 1939 to 1942.
Everything about Robert Lockhart Hobson →- Occupation
- antiquarian, civil servant, archivist, art historian
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom
- Born
- 1872
- Died
- 1941, June 5, 1941