two standard catalogues of the English pottery and porcelain in the British Museum. The catalogue of pottery was the first to include a section on medieval pottery of which the British Museum was a leader in establishing a reference collection. He wrote the entry on ceramics for the 1911 edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica and the entry on the Orientalist Stephen Wootton Bushell for the Dictionary of National Biography (1912). He later turned his attention to far eastern ceramics and became a noted scholar of Qing dynasty works. He was one of the first to explicitly date the earliest blue and white porcelain to the Song dynasty when most scholars still placed it in the Ming period, indicating his awareness of the latest archaeological excavations. His The wares of the Ming Dynasty (1923) was described by John Alexander Pope as an early attempt at an "overall objective classification of Ming wares" and a "kind of landmark" as a more critical approach began to enter the field of Chinese ceramics 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 compiled a catalogue of the pottery and porcelain in the George Eumorfopoulos collection which was published in six volumes from 1925 to 1928. Death and legacy Hobson died at his home in Horsham on 5 June 1941. He was survived by his wife Daisy to whom probate was granted on an estate of £7,171 net. He received obituaries in the Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, and The Times. Selected publications Catalogue of the collection of English pottery in the Department of British and Mediæval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum. London, British Museum, 1903. Catalogue of the collection of English porcelain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum. British Museum, London, 1905. Porcelain, oriental, continental and British: A book of handy reference for collectors. Constable, London, 1906. (2nd 1908) Handbook of marks on pottery and porcelain. Macmillan, London, 1909. Revised editions 1912, 1919. (With William Burton (1863–1941)) Worcester porcelain: A description of the ware from the wall period to the present day &c. Bernard Quaritch, London, 1910. Catalogue of porcelain, furniture and other works of art in the collection of Lady Wantage &c. W.H. Fairbairns, Enfield, 1912. (With Oliver Brackett) Chinese