Robert Lockhart Hobson CB (26 July 1872 – 5 June 1941) 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. (From Wikipedia)
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Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: The Art of the Chinese Potter From the Han Dynasty to the End of the Ming (London: E. Benn, 1923), also by A. L. Hetherington (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: The Art of the Chinese Potter From the Han Dynasty to the End of the Ming (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1923), also by A. L. Hetherington (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Chinese Ceramics in Private Collections (London: Halton and Truscott Smith, 1931), also by Bernard Rackham and William King (page images at CMU)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941, contrib.: Guide to the Maudslay Collection of Maya Sculptures (Casts and Originals) From Central America (London: Printed by order of the British Museum trustees, 1923), by Thomas Athol Joyce, also contrib. by Alfred Percival Maudslay
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941, contrib.: Handbook to the Ethnographical Collections (second edition; London: Printed by order of the British Museum trustees, 1925), by Thomas Athol Joyce, also contrib. by H. J. Braunholtz and Charles Hercules Read
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Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: The art of the Chinese potter : from the Han Dynasty to the end of the Ming (E. Benn, 1923), also by A.L. Hetherington (page images at HathiTrust)- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Catalogue of a collection of early English earthenware and other works of art. (Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1913), also by Burlington Fine Arts Club and J. W. L. Glaisher (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Catalogue of porcelain, furniture and other works of art in the collection of Lady Wantage at 2 Carlton Gardens, London, Lockinge House, Berks., and Overstone Park, Northants (W.H. Fairbairns, 1912), also by Oliver Brackett (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Catalogue of the collection of English porcelain in the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography of the British Museum (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1905), also by British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography and Augustus Wollaston Franks (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Catalogue of the collection of English pottery in the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities and ethnography of the British Museum (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1903), also by British Museum. Dept. of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Chinese art; one hundred plates in colour reproducing pottery & porcelain of all periods, jades, lacquer, paintings, bronzes, furniture, etc., etc. (The Macmillan company, 1927) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Chinese, Corean and Japanese potteries; descriptive catalogue of loan exhibition of selected examples (Japan society, 1914), also by N.Y.) Japan Society (New York, Rose Sickler Williams, and Edward Sylvester Morse (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Chinese pottery and porcelain: an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day (Cassell and Company, ltd., 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Chinese pottery and porcelain : an account of the potter's art in China from primitive times to the present day (Funk and Wagnalls, 1915) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 1. Pottery and early wares (Gutenberg ebook)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Chinese pottery and porcelain; vol. 2. Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain (Gutenberg ebook)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Exhibition of early Chinese pottery and porcelain. (Printed for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1910), also by Burlington Fine Arts Club, George Eumorfopoulos, and Charles Hercules Read (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Exhibition of early English earthenware. (Printed for the Burlington fine arts club, 1914), also by Burlington Fine Arts Club and J. W. L. Glaisher (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: A guide to the English pottery and porcelain in the Department of British and mediaeval antiquities. (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1910), also by British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: A guide to the English pottery and porcelain in the Department of British and Mediaeval antiquities. (The Museum, 1904), also by British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: A guide to the English pottery and porcelain in the Department of ceramics and ethnography; with 19 plates and 166 illustrations. (Printed by order of the Trustees, 1923), also by British Museum. Department of Oriental Antiquities and of Ethnography (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: A guide to the pottery & porcelain of the Far East, in the Department of Ceramics and Ethnography. (Printed by order of the Trustees at The Oxford University Press, 1924), also by British Museum. Department of Oriental Antiquities and of Ethnography (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Handbook of marks on pottery & porcelain (Macmillan and co., 1909), also by William Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Handbook of marks on pottery & porcelain (Macmillan and co., 1912), also by William Burton (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: The later ceramic wares of China, being the blue and white, famille verte, famille rose, monochromes, etc., of the Kʻang Hsi, Yung Chêng, Chʻien Lung and other periods of the Chʻing dynasty (E. Benn, limited, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: The later ceramic wares of China, being the blue and white, famille verte, famille rose, monochromes, etc., of the K'ang Hsi, Yung Chêng, Ch'ien Lung and other periods of the Ch'ing dynasty (C. Scribner's sons, 1925) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Memorial lecture on Mr. M.L.E. Solon (English Ceramic Society, 1914) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Porcelain, oriental, continental and British; a book of handy reference for collectors (E.P. Dutton & co., 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Porcelain, oriental, continental and British : a book of handy reference for collectors (Constable, 1908) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Porcelain, oriental, continental and British; a book of handy reference for collectors (F.A. Stokes co., 1917) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: The wares of the Ming dynasty (Scribner's, 1923) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Hobson, R. L. (Robert Lockhart), 1872-1941: Worcester porcelain : a description of the ware from the Wall period to the present day (B. Quaritch, 1910) (page images at HathiTrust)
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