Sue Ollemans has been selling Asian Works of Art for over 40 years. She was trained at the Percival David Foundation, SOAS, London and specialized in Asian works of Art from the Song Period and in particular pieces that were made or traded by the Dutch East India Company.
For the last 18 year, however, she has specialized in jewelry from Asia and related jeweled objects.
From Indonesia there are always treasures from Central Java and the Majapahit Periods and wearable pieces from Bali and the archipelago islands.
From China rare jewelry pieces are found from the Liao, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasty.
Champa and Khmer pieces are well represented from Vietnam and Cambodia with a few pieces from Ayuthyia and Sukhothai, Thailand.
Finally she has a large inventory of jewelry from the Indian sub-continent dating from the Mughal Period through to the Art Deco Period.
The gallery spends a lot of time researching the pieces and only selects pieces in the original state. Some pieces are wearable, some are for collectors.
Given that jewelry of, some form or another is worn by every man woman and child on the planet, whether it is a feather or large flawless diamond, it gives us an intimate view on the societies for whom it was made. It has always been a reflection of the status of the owner and in many cases a way of appeasing the gods and as such, it is a much-overlooked field in its importance in the world of art.
Jewelry need not be worn nor locked away in a safe but can be enjoyed as a sculptural work of art, displayed as you might a Brancusi or Renoir.
She regularly exhibits at Asia Week New York, San Francisco Fall Fair, Fine Art Asia, Hong Kong International Asian Art Fair Hong Kong, Taiwan, Asian Art London and private shows in Paris and Brussels.
She has sold items to Smithsonian Institute of Art, Brooklyn Art Museum, Philadelphia Art Museum, Middelbury College USA, Asian Art Museum Singapore, Hong Kong Museum of Art.
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