Lydia Thompson, PhD, is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) with the American Society of Appraisers and an authority on the art and archaeology of Asia. She has more than 25 years of experience as an art historian, curator, and educator and almost 20 years as an appraiser. She has written on Chinese art and archaeology and the Chinese art market. She has received fellowships for her research on Chinese art from The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and the Kress Foundation for Art History. She maintains a blog on the ins and outs of appraising and appraisal report writing at https://www.appraisalscribe.com/blog.
Dr. Thompson was educated at Middlebury College and obtained her M.A. and PhD from New York University, Institute of Fine Arts.