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Book SynopsisExamines how European and Asian ceramics in the domestic sphere challenged convention and tackled socio-political issues.
Table of ContentsIntroduction (Patricia Ferguson) 1. The Convergence of Pots, Prints and Politics in China? Some 14th to 17th century examples (Yu-ping Luk, British Museum) 2. A Fourteenth Century Longquan Pot with a Dual Purpose (Elaine Buck, SOAS) 3. Hagiographical works and figure production in late Ming Fujian (Wenyuan Xin, British Museum) 4. ‘Take note’: the construction of political allegories of the Sack of Rome (1527) on Italian Renaissance maiolica in the British Museum (Dora Thornton, Curator, Goldsmith’s Company) 5. War on a Plate: the Battle of Mülhberg on a maiolica dish in the Wallace Collection, London (Elisa Sani, The Courtauld Gallery) 6. Prints and Problematic Pots: Bernard Palissy, the post-Palisseans and the Palyssistes (Claire Blakey, Burrell Collection, and Rachel King, British Museum) 7. Exotic self-reflections – fashioning Chinese porcelain for European eyes (Helen Glaister, Victoria and Albert Museum) 8. ‘Aux plaisirs des dames’: designing and redesigning a Meissen bourdaloue (Catrin Jones, Wedgwood Museum) 9. Myth and Materiality: Admiral Anson’s Chinese Armorial Dinner Service at Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire (Patricia Ferguson, British Museum) 10. From ‘stampa’ and ‘riporto’ to ‘giochi di bambini’: transfer–printing and iconographic sources at Carlo Ginori’s Porcelain Manufactory at Doccia (Alessandro Biancalana, independent art historian and author) 11. Jefferyes Hamett O’Neale (fl.1750-1801): porcelain painter and print designer (Sheila O’Connell, British Museum) 12. Potty Propaganda? ‘King Louis’ Last Interview with his Family’ on a creamware mug, 1793-95 (Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, University of Leeds) 13. Pots for Poets: Ceramics up-close in Japanese prints, including Hokusai’s Everything Concerning Horses (Mary Redfern, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin) 14. “Remember Them that are in Bonds”: A Plate Made for the Abolition Movement (Ronald W. Fuchs II, Reeves Center, Washington and Lee University, and Patricia Ferguson, British Museum) 15. Appropriated Heroes: Prints, Pots and Political Symbols in Revolutionary China (Mary Ginsberg, British Museum)
