Chinese porcelain services specially commissioned by individuals and families to include their coats of arms within the decorative scheme were distinctly fashionable and popular in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Manly objects? Gendering Armorial Porcelain Wares By Kate Smith Please note that this case study was first published on blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah in June 2014. It was…
In 1819, when John and Margaret Benn-Walsh’s son John came of age, John Walsh’s will ensured that he inherited all the properties that John and…
When returning to England, how did East India Company officials and their families marry the England they imagined to that they were greeted with? For…
Richard Benyon the Younger died in 1796, leaving his son Richard Benyon (1770-1854) to inherit. On 27 September 1797, a year after his father’s death…
It seems that Richard Benyon did not recommend Lady Clive, but rather that she came under recommendation from others. Nathaniel Wrighte described to Benyon how…
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