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Deity and Display: Meanings, Transformations, and Exhibitions of Tibetan Buddhist Objects (2020)
Journal Article
Tythacott, L., & Bellini, C. (2020). Deity and Display: Meanings, Transformations, and Exhibitions of Tibetan Buddhist Objects. Religions, 11(3), https://doi.org/10.3390/rel11030106

This paper analyses the values and uses of Tibetan sacred artefacts in their original contexts as well as the transformation of meanings once placed in museums. It discusses the perception of statues, paintings, ritual instruments and books from a Ti... Read More about Deity and Display: Meanings, Transformations, and Exhibitions of Tibetan Buddhist Objects.

Exhibiting and Auctioning Yuanmingyuan (“Summer Palace”) Loot in 1860s and 1870s London: The Elgin and Negroni Collections (2018)
Journal Article
Tythacott, L. (2018). Exhibiting and Auctioning Yuanmingyuan (“Summer Palace”) Loot in 1860s and 1870s London: The Elgin and Negroni Collections. Journal for Art Market Studies, 2(3), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.23690/jams.v2i3.63

This article examines the exhibitions and sales of Yuanmingyuan (or “Summer Palace”) loot taken from China in October 1860 by two soldiers in the Anglo-French armies – James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863) and Captain Jean-Louis de Negroni (b.18... Read More about Exhibiting and Auctioning Yuanmingyuan (“Summer Palace”) Loot in 1860s and 1870s London: The Elgin and Negroni Collections.

Curating the Sacred: Exhibiting Buddhism at World Museum Liverpool (2017)
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Tythacott, L. (2017). Curating the Sacred: Exhibiting Buddhism at World Museum Liverpool. Buddhist Studies Review, 34(1), 115-133. https://doi.org/10.1558/bsrv.29020

This article explores issues involved in representing Buddhism in museums, drawing on the author’s experience of curating the Buddhism display at the World Museum Liverpool. It is concerned with processes of de-contextualization and re-contextualizat... Read More about Curating the Sacred: Exhibiting Buddhism at World Museum Liverpool.

Trophies of War: Representing ‘Summer Palace’ Loot in Military Museums in the UK (2015)
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Tythacott, L. (2015). Trophies of War: Representing ‘Summer Palace’ Loot in Military Museums in the UK. Museum & Society, 13(4), 469-488. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v13i4.348

In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War (1856-60), British and French troops looted and then burnt the imperial buildings in the Yuanmingyuan (known at the time by foreigners as the ‘Summer Palace’) in the north of Beijing. This w... Read More about Trophies of War: Representing ‘Summer Palace’ Loot in Military Museums in the UK.

The power of taste: the dispersal of the Berkeley Smith collection of Chinese ceramics at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum (1921-1960) (2015)
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Tythacott, L. (2016). The power of taste: the dispersal of the Berkeley Smith collection of Chinese ceramics at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum (1921-1960). Journal of the History of Collections, 28(2), 327-343. https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhv033

In 1921, Stanley Berkeley Smith (1878-1955), a British banker based in Karachi, offered his collection of around 800 Chinese ceramics on loan to Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum. Berkeley Smith had spent the previous 21years acquiring the objects in I... Read More about The power of taste: the dispersal of the Berkeley Smith collection of Chinese ceramics at Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum (1921-1960).

Race on display: the “Melanian”, “Mongolian” and “Caucasian” galleries at Liverpool Museum (1896-1929) (2011)
Journal Article
Tythacott, L. (2011). Race on display: the “Melanian”, “Mongolian” and “Caucasian” galleries at Liverpool Museum (1896-1929). Early Popular Visual Culture, 9(2), 131-146. https://doi.org/10.1080/17460654.2011.571039

This paper examines a form of evolutionary display that emerged at Liverpool Museum between 1896 and 1929, one based on racial types. It traces the formation and early history of this institution, as well as the development of evolutionary theories i... Read More about Race on display: the “Melanian”, “Mongolian” and “Caucasian” galleries at Liverpool Museum (1896-1929).

Curiosities, Antiquities, Art Treasure, Commodities: collecting Chinese deity figures in mid-nineteenth-century England (2010)
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Tythacott, L. (2010). Curiosities, Antiquities, Art Treasure, Commodities: collecting Chinese deity figures in mid-nineteenth-century England. Journal of museum ethnography, 23, 56-71

This paper takes a particular period in the biographies of a set of Chinese Buddhist images - 1850s-1860s – in order to examine the different meanings bestowed upon them by antiquarian collectors. The set consists of five deity figures, the largest o... Read More about Curiosities, Antiquities, Art Treasure, Commodities: collecting Chinese deity figures in mid-nineteenth-century England.

Sacred Island Deities (2009)
Journal Article
Tythacott, L. (2009). Sacred Island Deities. Apollo (London. 1925), 169(563), 90-97

Khmer (2000)
Journal Article
Tythacott, L. (2000). Khmer