Sau Fong Chan is a curator in the V&A's Asian department, and looks after the textiles and dress collections from China and South-East Asia.
During a recent study trip to mainland Southeast Asia researching the local textile and ceramic traditions, twice I came across some 19th-century European ceramics in Bangkok....
My first encounter with Scottish ceramics was during a study trip to Singapore in 2012. A group of European ceramics on display at the Malay Heritage Centre had caught my eyes....