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…
Conclusion Recent research on the 208-piece Qianlong-period porcelain dinner service brought to England by Commodore George, later Lord Anson (1697-1762) in 1744 and now housed…
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…
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