sezincote case study: the cockerell family
Figure 8: Portrait of Samuel Pepys Cockerell by George Dance. 1793 Graphite, with watercolour. Museum number 1898,0712.17. © The Trustees of the British Museum. The Cockerell Family Sezincote’s...
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 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...
View ArticleMiddleton Hall Case Study
Figure 1. ‘Middleton Hall Front View’, lithograph by Augustus Butler. 1853. Image courtesy of Lowri Ann Rees. Middleton Hall, Carmarthenshire by Lowri Ann Rees Please note that this case study was...
View ArticleIvory furniture case study: Sale
Sale Figure 8. ‘Warren Hastings (1732-1818), Governor-General of Fort William, Bengal, 1774-85’, George Romney, 1795. © British Library Board, F1. Throughout the late eighteenth century Warren...
View ArticleRobert Smith and Redcliffe Towers Case Study
Figure 1. The Hotel Redcliffe (Redcliffe Towers), Paignton, Devon, early 20th century. © The Redcliffe Hotel. A Fairy Palace in Devon: Redcliffe Towers, built by Colonel Robert Smith (1787-1873),...
View ArticleRobert Smith and Redcliffe Towers Case Study: Background and Training
Figure 2. Jivan Ram, Raja (Raja Jirvan Raja), Portrait of Robert Smith, Bengal Engineers, c.1830, oil painting. © British Library Board, Foster 870. Background and Training Robert Smith’s early family...
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