English Porcelain, 1745-1850
English Porcelain, 1745-1850

Author: Robert Jesse Charleston

Publisher: London : Ernest Benn ; Toronto : University of Toronto Press

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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Illustrated articles by specialists on sixteen factories or china producing areas. Includes list of porcelain museums in the U.S.A. and Great Britain.

English Porcelain 1745-95
English Porcelain 1745-95

Author: Hilary Young

Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13:

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The central focus of this text on 18th-century English porcelain is the design processes that were followed in the industry. These are studied and discussed in relation to manufacturing techniques and the appearance of the figures and tablewares themselves. Other explorations of 18th-century porcelain trade include: plagiarism and industrial espionage; importation and exportation; raw materials and factory siting; and terms and conditions of employment. The text also examines the sales and marketing of English porcelain and pieces together the evidence for its consumption and use, linking these to the spread of polite culture and other changes in the social fabric of 18th-century England. Appendices give brief factory histories and a chronology of events.

Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context
Eighteenth-Century Thing Theory in a Global Context

Author: Ileana Baird

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 1317145445

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Exploring Enlightenment attitudes toward things and their relation to human subjects, this collection offers a geographically wide-ranging perspective on what the eighteenth century looked like beyond British or British-colonial borders. To highlight trends, fashions, and cultural imports of truly global significance, the contributors draw their case studies from Western Europe, Russia, Africa, Latin America, and Oceania. This survey underscores the multifarious ways in which new theoretical approaches, such as thing theory or material and visual culture studies, revise our understanding of the people and objects that inhabit the phenomenological spaces of the eighteenth century. Rather than focusing on a particular geographical area, or on the global as a juxtaposition of regions with a distinctive cultural footprint, this collection draws attention to the unforeseen relational maps drawn by things in their global peregrinations, celebrating the logic of serendipity that transforms the object into some-thing else when it is placed in a new locale.