The Willow Pattern Case Study: Visit to Dunham Massey
Figure 8. Dunham Massey, Greater Manchester. Image courtesy of Francesca D’Antonio. Visit to Dunham Massey After completing preliminary research on Dunham Massey’s ceramic collection, I visited to the...
View ArticleThe Willow Pattern Case Study: Inventories
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 centuries. Prior to its...
View ArticleThe Willow Pattern Case Study: Conclusion and bibliography
Figure 11. Detail of Willow Pattern plate. Dunham Massey, Greater Manchester. Image courtesy of Francesca D’Antonio. Conclusion This case study explored a type of ware, created in terms of material...
View ArticleArmorial Porcelain Case Study: Women, porcelain and pleasure
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 of fine...
View ArticleArmorial Porcelain Case Study: The Basildon Park Service
Figure 4. Basildon Park, Berkshire. 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 century and was...
View ArticleArmorial Porcelain Case Study: Acquisition
Figure 6. Plate with cut edges from armorial Chinese porcelain service, Qianlong reign (1736-96), c.1765-70. Basildon Park, National Trust. Image courtesy of Kate Smith. Acquisition How did Francis...
View ArticleArmorial Porcelain Case Study: Designing the service
Figure 7. Plate from armorial Chinese porcelain service, c.1765-70, Basildon Park, National Trust. Image courtesy of Kate Smith. Designing the service It was not only a question of the spaces and...
View ArticleArmorial Porcelain Case Study: Using the service
Figure 9. Plate from armorial Chinese porcelain service in the dining room at Basildon Park, c.1765-70. Basildon Park, National Trust. Image courtesy of Kate Smith. Using the service Armorial services...
View ArticleArmorial Porcelain Case Study: Conclusion
Figure 10. Plate from armorial Chinese porcelain service, Qianlong reign (1736-96), c.1743. Shugborough, Staffordshire. National Trust. Image courtesy of Kate Smith. Conclusion Recent research on the...
View ArticleNew Case Study: Armorial Porcelain
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 eighteenth-century...
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