Robert Smith and Redcliffe Towers Case Study: Background and Training

Robert Smith and Redcliffe Towers Case Study: Background and Training

Background and Training Robert Smith’s early family life not only shaped the direction of his later career, but also the locations and houses in which…

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Robert Smith and Redcliffe Towers Case Study

Robert Smith and Redcliffe Towers Case Study

  A Fairy Palace in Devon: Redcliffe Towers, built by Colonel Robert Smith (1787-1873), Bengal Engineers By Diane James Please note that this case study…

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Ivory furniture case study: Sale

Ivory furniture case study: Sale

Sale Throughout the late eighteenth century Warren Hastings (1732-1818) and his wife Marian (1744-1837) held an important place in Britons’ imaginings of empire. The press…

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Middleton Hall Case Study

Middleton Hall Case Study

Middleton Hall, Carmarthenshire by Lowri Ann Rees   Please note that this case study was first published on blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah in June 2014. The case study…

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Armorial Porcelain Case Study: Using the service

Armorial Porcelain Case Study: Using the service

Using the service Armorial services did not simply contain dining wares. These elaborate ensembles often contained dining, decorative and tea table wares. While dining wares…

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Armorial Porcelain Case Study: Designing the service

Armorial Porcelain Case Study: Designing the service

Designing the service It was not only a question of the spaces and systems through which individuals purchased ceramics, of course, but also what they…

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Armorial Porcelain Case Study: Acquisition

Armorial Porcelain Case Study: Acquisition

Acquisition How did Francis Sykes originally acquire this service and how did those modes of acquisition mark these objects out as distinctly different from more…

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Armorial Porcelain Case Study: The Basildon Park Service

Armorial Porcelain Case Study: The Basildon Park Service

The Basildon Park Service This study will probe these themes by focusing on a single service, which belonged to Francis Sykes in the late eighteenth…

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sezincote case study: the cockerell family

sezincote case study: the cockerell family

The Cockerell Family Sezincote’s association with the Cockerells and the East India Company began in 1795 when Colonel John Cockerell (1752 – 1798) purchased the…

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