A selection of current exhibitions and works of art on the market - Round The Galleries

November heralds the turn back of Asian Art in London, individual of the major highlights of the international art calendar, now in its sixth year. Museum directors and curators, specialists and collectors will be descending on London from 6-14 November to take part in the extensive programme of circumstances that is taking place, including prelections and seminars, and there is of course a wide variety of grand galleries, sales and exhibitions to visit. For further information upon exhibition listings and the facts programme, visit the official web site at www.asianartinlondon.com.

Eskenazi is staging an exhibition called 'Song: Chinese Ceramics, 10th to 13th Century' at 10 Clifford highway Running from 6-29 November, the present to view will undoubtedly be one of the highlights of Asian Art in London. The exhibit brings together many different impressed signs of ceramics produced over four centuries: from the extremity of the Tang/Five Dynasties period in the tithe century through to the extremity of the Southern Song/beginning of the Yuang Period at the extremity of the thirteenth century. individual of the many highlights of the thirty-five-strong display is an unusual porcellaneous stoneware pillow in the shape of a reclining male child shaded by a lotus leaf. Datable to the Northern canticle or Jin period (eleventh-twelfth century) its 'creamy glaze' is characteristic of Ding ware. It is likely to be a fertility representative or to symbolise the desire for numerous sons

Thirteen mirrors of remarkable diversity and beauty will be upon display in the absorbing exhibition 'Behind the Chinese mirror: The art of the Mirrorsmith in pre-Ming China' at Priestley & Ferraro, 17 King highway St James's. Running from 6-14 November, the creations upon show date from the Warring States Period to the Jin dynasty, and exemplify the extraordinary sophistication of the metalworkers who were active during the post-archaic period.

Since the summer of 2001 Paula Rego has been preoccupied with the theme of Jane Eyre The Bronte narrative accommodate withs itself to Rego's sense of drama and her capacity for storytelling, and Marlborough Fine Art are commonly holding a fascinating exhibition of her novel works devoted to this theme. The Jane Eyre series comprises twenty-five lithographs--including an impressive six-foot triptych--and pastel works, end which she explores the ambivalence of the characters. Also upon view are a variety of pastels Rego has unraveled since the Jane Eyre series. For anyone interested in the oeuvre of this always interesting artist, this display is well worth a visit. 'Jane Eyre and other stories' races until 22 November 2003 at 6 Albemarle Street

Forthcoming in December from the galleries of Florlan Papp is an exhibition by means of Charles Plante Fine Arts of above three hundred eighteenth--and nineteenth hundred water-colours. Featuring in the display will be English interiors from a collection of twenty-eight late nineteenth-century watercolours, architectural drawings by means of prominent architects of the time, including Robert Adam and Sir Charles Barry, and French neo-classical designs for the decorative arts including a variety of inkwells, vases, clock and chandeliers. The exhibition can be seen at 962 Madison Avenue, of recent origin York.

A selling exhibition of twentieth-century Danish craft furniture uncloses on 26 November at Harris Lindsay, 67 Jermyn highway Featuring some of the foremost names of the motion the show promises visitors a showcase of elegant, unfussy, ergonomic furniture. Although pieces will be for sale, furniture is also being lent by dint of the National Danish Museum of Applied Art, the Finn Juhl Foundation, and the architect and designer Nanna Ditzel. The display will run until 10 December.

An important exhibition of British paintings from the 1730 to the 1950 is commonly being held at Richard verdant 147 New Bond Street. upon display are works that capture the flavour of British pastimes and painterly pursuits during the three centuries showed above all portraits, animal topographical and marine paintings, depictions of the Grand Tour, and sporting pictures. Artists exhibited include such notables as Thomas Gainsborough, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Bartholomew Dandridge and Sir Alfred Munnings, to name on the other hand a few. The exhibition shuts on 29 November.

An exhibition of eighteen oil paintings through the award-winning Nicholas Granger-Taylor is taking place this month trom 7-29 November at proffer Waterman & Co., 11 Langton highway Granger-Taylor's pensive and compelling unclotheds and still lifes are highly desirable and have been acquired above the years by private collectors and public institutions alike. This is the first solo exhibition of Granger-Taylor's works to be staged in four years, and is wait fored to follow in the highly-acclaimed traces of his earlier solo ventures

To mark the centenary of Camille Pissarro's death upon 13 November, the Stern Pissarro Gallery are holding what is probably the largest exhibition of original works through the artist to be mountained by a private gallery in above fifty years. More than forty works spanning Pissarro's entire career will be upon display, many travelling from the United States and France. 'Camille Pissarro: St Thomas to Paris' will be upon show at 46 Ledbury Road from 11 November-6 December.