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Boîte à Documents (Bunko) (2025)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (in press). Boîte à Documents (Bunko). In Une Passion Chinoise –Monsieur Thiers’ China. Louvre Museum

Transforming Chemrey Museum: Monastic Curating and Co-Curating in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Ladakh (2025)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (2025). Transforming Chemrey Museum: Monastic Curating and Co-Curating in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Ladakh. In Y. Cai (Ed.), The Museum in Asia (115-128). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367815264-11

Over the past decades, Ladakh in northwest India has experienced a museum boom with the creation of exhibitionary spaces in many of the key Buddhist monasteries. While small, single-room displays were set up in the 1990s, the first major ‘Western’ st... Read More about Transforming Chemrey Museum: Monastic Curating and Co-Curating in a Tibetan Buddhist Monastery in Ladakh.

Monastery and Museum in Mustang and Ladakh (2024)
Book Chapter
Luczanits, C., & Tythacott, L. (2024). Monastery and Museum in Mustang and Ladakh. In C. Luczanits, & L. Tythacott (Eds.), Tibetan Monastery Collections and Museums: Traditional Practices and Contemporary Issues (24-85). Vajra Books

Introduction (2024)
Book Chapter
Luczanits, C., & Tythacott, L. (2024). Introduction. In C. Luczanits, & L. Tythacott (Eds.), Tibetan Monastery Collections and Museums: Traditional Practices and Contemporary Issues (13-25). Vajra Books

英国和法国博物馆藏圆明园文物 (2024)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L., & Shichun, L. (2024). 英国和法国博物馆藏圆明园文物. In Y. Xu (Ed.), 圆明园—清代皇家园居文化. 香港故宫文化博物馆 = Hong Kong Palace Museum

From Songlines to Transvangarde: contemporary Indigenous Australian art at two private galleries in London, 1988-2020 (2024)
Thesis
Ahmad, A. From Songlines to Transvangarde: contemporary Indigenous Australian art at two private galleries in London, 1988-2020. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores what, precisely, constitutes the criterion of quality applied by the individual and collective Directors at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery (RHG) and the October Gallery (OG) in London in the assessment of a work of art. The purpose... Read More about From Songlines to Transvangarde: contemporary Indigenous Australian art at two private galleries in London, 1988-2020.

Collecting and Returning Southeast Asia’s Past (2021)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L., & Ardiyansyah, P. (2021). Collecting and Returning Southeast Asia’s Past. In L. Tythacott, & P. Ardiyansyah (Eds.), Returning Southeast Asia's Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution (1-37). NUS Press

Returning Southeast Asia’s Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution. (2021)
Book
Tythacott, L., & Ardiyansyah, P. (Eds.). (2021). Returning Southeast Asia’s Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution. NUS Press

For the past century and a half, extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage have scattered art objects from the region to museums and private collections around the world. Today, however, power relations are shift... Read More about Returning Southeast Asia’s Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution..

The Looting of Koh Ker and the Return of the Prasat Chen statues (2021)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L., Chea, S., & Muong, C. (2021). The Looting of Koh Ker and the Return of the Prasat Chen statues. In L. Tythacott, & P. Ardiyansyah (Eds.), Returning Southeast Asia's Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution (62-86). NUS Press

Military Histories of ‘Summer Palace’ objects from China in military museums in the United Kingdom (2020)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (2020). Military Histories of ‘Summer Palace’ objects from China in military museums in the United Kingdom. In H. Lidchi, & S. Allan (Eds.), Dividing the Spoils: Perspectives on Military Collecting and the British Empire (187-204). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526139214.00019

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 Military Histories of ‘Summer Palace’ objects from China in military museums in the United Kingdom.

Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar (2020)
Thesis
Tan, H. Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Gifts have been accumulated, stored and displayed at sacred sites in Myanmar for millennia as they have elsewhere within the Buddhist world. This thesis is the first attempt to analyse the phenomenon known as the ‘pagoda museum’ that existed since at... Read More about Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar.

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.

The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects (2018)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (2018). The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects. In L. Tythacott (Ed.), Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France (3-24). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315113395-1

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the movements and shifting meanings attached to Yuanmingyuan artefacts. The Yuanmingyuan was one of the most important pal... Read More about The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects.

"True Beauty of Form and Chaste Embellishment": Summer Palace Loot and Chinese Porcelain Collecting in Nineteenth-century Britain (2018)
Book Chapter
Pierson, S. (2018). "True Beauty of Form and Chaste Embellishment": Summer Palace Loot and Chinese Porcelain Collecting in Nineteenth-century Britain. In L. Tythacott (Ed.), Collecting and Displaying China's "Summer Palace" in the West. The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France (72-86). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315113395-5

This chapter considers how the novelty of the Yuanmingyuan objects was received and conceived of by collectors shortly after the 1860 aggression. It explores how these new objects were incorporated into a developing canon of "Chinese" things, particu... Read More about "True Beauty of Form and Chaste Embellishment": Summer Palace Loot and Chinese Porcelain Collecting in Nineteenth-century Britain.

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.