PROF Stacey Pierson's Outputs (5)

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.

Visual and Material Cultures of Food and Drink in China, 200 BCE - 1900 CE (2022)
Book
Pierson, S. (Ed.). (2022). Visual and Material Cultures of Food and Drink in China, 200 BCE - 1900 CE. Cambridge Scholars Publishing

This collection of essays examines aspects of the history of food and drink in China through an innovative, interdisciplinary lens. Arranged in chronological and thematic order, the chapters present the research of a diverse group of international sc... Read More about Visual and Material Cultures of Food and Drink in China, 200 BCE - 1900 CE.

Export or Exported? Primary and Secondary Transfer in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Chinese Porcelain (2022)
Book Chapter
Pierson, S. Export or Exported? Primary and Secondary Transfer in Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Century Chinese Porcelain. In S. E. Fraser, M. Wakita, & L. Wang (Eds.), Women Cross Media. East Asian Photography, Prints and Porcelain from the Staatliche Kunstammlungen Dresden (336-355). arthistoricum.net. https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.995.c13795

Constructing Cantonese-ness(es): Relocations and Remediations of Chao Shao-an’s Paintings across the Asia-Pacific, c. 1950s- 2010s (2022)
Thesis
Wong, Y. H. Constructing Cantonese-ness(es): Relocations and Remediations of Chao Shao-an’s Paintings across the Asia-Pacific, c. 1950s- 2010s. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis defines and deconstructs what the author calls the “Chao Shao-an Phenomenon”, and analyses how Chao’s paintings have been disseminated and represented by himself and his followers in different regions in the Asia-Pacific since the mid-20t... Read More about Constructing Cantonese-ness(es): Relocations and Remediations of Chao Shao-an’s Paintings across the Asia-Pacific, c. 1950s- 2010s.

The Origin, Development and Classification of Trompe l’oeil Porcelain in High Qing China (2022)
Thesis
Chen, C.-E. The Origin, Development and Classification of Trompe l’oeil Porcelain in High Qing China. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis aims to present an alternate conception of Qing trompe l’oeil porcelain, which fools the eye, appearing real while being materially different from its referent model. Typically it is so skilful that it can be visually mistaken for the ori... Read More about The Origin, Development and Classification of Trompe l’oeil Porcelain in High Qing China.