A large blue and white porcelain jar

Sedgwick was a lender to the important Oriental Ceramic Society exhibition in London in 1956. Fellow lenders included Richard de la Mare, Soame Jenyns, Gerald Reitlinger, Sir Harry Garner, William Winkworth, Lord Ilchester, Sir John Figgess and G. M. Gompertz. "The great interest of this exhibition," Jenyns wrote in the catalogue introduction, "lies in the fact that it is the first of its kind to draw attention to the 17th century Arita and Kutani porcelains in England, which up to very recent time have been wholly neglected by European students of ceramics, and whose existence and variety are, I suspect, scarcely realized by the Japanese themselves."