13th - 14th century Yuan and Mongol silk-gold textiles: transcultural consumption, meaning and reception in the Mongol empire and in Europe
(2018)
Thesis
Lunde, K. S. 13th - 14th century Yuan and Mongol silk-gold textiles: transcultural consumption, meaning and reception in the Mongol empire and in Europe. (Thesis). SOAS University of London
PROF Stacey Pierson's Outputs (2)
"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/10.4324/9781315113395-5This 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.