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…
Women, porcelain and pleasure During the eighteenth century porcelain remained synonymous with women. As Elizabeth Kowaleski-Wallace argues, throughout the period, a variety of authors wrote…
Conclusion This case study explored a type of ware, created in terms of material and design, as a result of Britain’s trade with China through…
Inventories Within the collections of The John Rylands Library at the University of Manchester I found four different inventories for the nineteenth and early twentieth…
Visit to Dunham Massey After completing preliminary research on Dunham Massey’s ceramic collection, I visited to the house on 10 September 2013. I must admit…
The Willow Pattern explained Willow Pattern wares’ popularity and ubiquity in Britain meant that in their purchase, they invited consumers to engage with a particular…
The Willow Pattern: Dunham Massey By Francesca D’Antonio Please note that this case study was first published on blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah in June 2014. The case…
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