Mary Tregear

Mary Tregear (11 February 1924 – 17 December 2010) was a museum curator and art historian specializing in Chinese art. She was born in Wuchang, China.

She was a curator at Hong Kong University’s Fung Ping Shan Museum, then a member of staff at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, where she was Assistant Keeper for the Chinese collection, from 1961, and then Keeper of Eastern Art, 1987-1991. She was a fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, a fellow of the British Academy, and President of the Oriental Ceramic Society.

Main publications

• Catalogue of Chinese Greenware, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1976.
• Chinese Ceramics in the Ashmolean Museum. An illustrated handbook to the collections, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1979.
• Song Ceramics, Thames and Hudson, London, 1982.
• Kiln Sites of Ancient China (by Penelope Hughes-Stanton and Rose Kerr, ed. by Mary Tregear), Oriental Ceramic Society, 1980
• Oriental Lacquer: Chinese and Japanese lacquer from the Ashmolean Museum(O.R. Impey and Mary Tregear), Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1983.

References

• Obituary: Oxford Today