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Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Translation. A Conversation about James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room (2023)
Journal Article
Glazer, L., & Pierson, S. (2023). Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Translation. A Conversation about James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room. Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture, 57(2-3), 124-144. https://doi.org/10.1086/728448

The authors discuss Chinese ceramics and James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room as a case study in cultural translation and cosmopolitan aestheticism. The article, derived from a talk given by the authors at a conference on the global impact of Asian... Read More about Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Translation. A Conversation about James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room.

The Power of Provenance. Dr Johnson’s Teapot and the Materialization of Fame (2022)
Journal Article
Pierson, S. (2022). The Power of Provenance. Dr Johnson’s Teapot and the Materialization of Fame. Transfer (Heidelberg), 29-43. https://doi.org/10.48640/tf.2022.1.91511

In the British Museum collection, there is an eighteenth-century Chinese teapot that is named on its label ‘Dr Johnson’s teapot’. Evoking the famous lexicographer and tea drinker Samuel Johnson (1708-84), this teapot has been given a name that associ... Read More about The Power of Provenance. Dr Johnson’s Teapot and the Materialization of Fame.

True or False? Defining the Fake in Chinese Porcelain (2019)
Journal Article
Pierson, S. (2019). True or False? Defining the Fake in Chinese Porcelain. Les Cahiers de Framespa, 31, https://doi.org/10.4000/framespa.6168

This article explores the category of ‘fake’ in Chinese porcelain. It begins by defining the fake in the context of Chinese art and considers how the fake might be a stylistic category as well as a concept with reference to Chinese ceramics. Fake por... Read More about True or False? Defining the Fake in Chinese Porcelain.