Country houses and the British Empire, 1700–1930
Country houses and the British Empire, 1700–1930

Author: Stephanie Barczewski

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-02-01

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 1526117533

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Country houses and the British empire, 1700–1930 assesses the economic and cultural links between country houses and the Empire between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Using sources from over fifty British and Irish archives, it enables readers to better understand the impact of the empire upon the British metropolis by showing both the geographical variations and its different cultural manifestations. Barczewski offers a rare scholarly analysis of the history of country houses that goes beyond an architectural or biographical study, and recognises their importance as the physical embodiments of imperial wealth and reflectors of imperial cultural influences. In so doing, she restores them to their true place of centrality in British culture over the last three centuries, and provides fresh insights into the role of the Empire in the British metropolis.

Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market
Chinese Armorial Porcelain for the Dutch Market

Author: Jochem Kroes

Publisher: Waanders Publishers

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 728

ISBN-13:

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A surveying publication about Chinese armorial porcelain for the Dutch market is lacking up to now. The aim of this publication is a reference book written in English, containing a description of c. 500 Chinese services bearing coats of arms of Dutch families. About 200 services will be varieties.

Armorial Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century
Armorial Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century

Author: Sir Algernon Tudor Tudor-Craig

Publisher:

Published: 1925

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13:

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It is curious that so little information is available in connection with armorial china from any published works on Chinese or other porcelain. Except for the late Mr. F.A. Crisp's "Armorial China", which is an illustrated catalogue of his own collection, and for "Examples of Armorial China", which merely gives reproducations in colour by W. Griggs, of pieces in various collections, there is no work definitely devoted to this subject, while even these works make no attempt in any way to describe its origin and history. Yet the collection of armorial porcelain is a most interesting one, dealing as it does, not only with the manufacture and quality of the china itself, but also, by means of the armorial bearings, conveying its own date and history, and leading the student on to the fascinating study of heraldry and genealogy.--pg. 1.