Armorial Porcelain
Author: Rachel L. Denyer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 3031637453
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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
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCountry 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.
Armorial Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Sir Algernon Tudor Tudor-Craig
Publisher:
Published: 1925
Total Pages: 168
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt 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.
Chats on English China
Author: Arthur Hayden
Publisher:
Published: 1906
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKChina Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange
Author: Clare Le Corbeiller
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0870990896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Mudlark's Treasures
Author: Ted Sandling
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Published: 2016-11-03
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1781012172
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'A beautiful book.' Daily Mail 'Exhilaratingly curious.' Evening Standard 'Gripping.' Spectator 'Brilliant.' Penelope Lively 'Indefatigably researched.' Country Life 'Beautifully illustrated.' Monocle Mudlarking, the act of searching the Thames foreshore for items of value, has a long tradition in England's capital. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, mudlarks were small boys grubbing a living from scrap. Today’s mudlarks unearth relics of the past from the banks of the Thames which tell stories of Londoners throughout history. From Roman tiles to elegant Georgian pottery, presented here are modern-day mudlark Ted Sandling's most evocative finds, gorgeously photographed. Together they create a mosaic of everyday London life through the centuries, touching on the journeys, pleasures, vices, industries, adornments and comforts of a world city. This unique and stunning book celebrates the beauty of small things, and makes sense of the intangible connection that found objects give us to the individuals who lost them.
A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe
Author: Johanna Ilmakunnas
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017-06-29
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1474258255
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJon Stobart and Johanna Ilmakunnas bring together a range of scholars from across mainland Europe and the UK to examine luxury and taste in early modern Europe. In the 18th century, debates raged about the economic, social and moral impacts of luxury, whilst taste was viewed as a refining influence and a marker of rank and status. This book takes a fresh, comparative approach to these ideas, drawing together new scholarship to examine three related areas in a wide variety of European contexts. Firstly, the deployment of luxury goods in displays of status and how these practices varied across space and time. Secondly, the processes of communicating and acquiring taste and luxury: how did people obtain tasteful and luxurious goods, and how did they recognise them as such? Thirdly, the ways in which ideas of taste and luxury crossed national, political and economic boundaries: what happened to established ideas of luxury and taste as goods moved from one country to another, and during times of political transformation? Through the analysis of case studies looking at consumption practices, material culture, political economy and retail marketing, A Taste for Luxury in Early Modern Europe challenges established readings of luxury and taste. This is a crucial volume for any historian seeking a more nuanced understanding of material culture, consumption and luxury in early modern Europe.
Orientalism
Author: John M. MacKenzie
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1995-07-15
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780719045783
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Orientalism debate, inspired by the work of Edward Said, has been a major source of cross-disciplinary controversy. This work offers a re-evaluation of this vast literature of Orientalism by a historian of imperalism, giving it a historical perspective
