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…
Written by Andrew Renton, Head of Applied Art at Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales, this case study examines a remarkable gold communion cup belonging…
Studies of collecting as a phenomenon, from the age of the ‘cabinet of curiosity’ to the present, have focused overwhelmingly on male collectors – men…
Unlike other ‘objects studies’ featured in the East India Company At Home 1757-1857 project, this case study focuses on a specific ceramic ware pattern rather…
Written by project associate Angela Nutting, this case study explores how generations of the Bond family became connected to global trade and the East India…
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