Estelle Niklès van Osselt is a sinologist and studied Asian art and archaeology at the universities of Geneva, London and Beijing. She is at present curator at the Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Art, in Geneva, and was formerly employed by the Guy & Myriam Ullens Foundation for Contemporary Chinese Art and their UCCA art centre in Beijing. Her publications include: Five Blessings: Coded Messages in Chinese Art (2015) and L'Aventure chinoise. Une famille suisse à la conquête du Céleste Empire (2017). She specialises in the wordplay underlying the composition of Chinese images and her present research explores the cultural links that gradually developed between Europe and Asia from the 19th century onwards.