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Pots, prints and politics : ceramics with an agenda, from the 14th to the 20th century

Title
Pots, prints and politics : ceramics with an agenda, from the 14th to the 20th century / edited by Patricia F. Ferguson.
Publication
  • London : The British Museum, [2021]
  • ©2021

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Additional Authors
Ferguson, Patricia F.
Description
167 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour ); 30 cm.
Summary
From the introduction of woodblock printing in China to the development of copper-plate engraving in Europe, the print medium has been used around the world to circulate knowledge. Ceramic artists across time and cultures have adapted these graphic sources as painted or transfer-printed images applied onto glazed or unglazed surfaces to express political and social issues including propaganda, self-promotion, piety, gender, national and regional identities. Long before photography, printers also included pots in engravings or other two-dimensional techniques which have broadened scholarship and encouraged debate. 'Pots, Prints and Politics' examines how European and Asian ceramics traditionally associated with the domestic sphere have been used by potters to challenge convention and tackle serious issues from the 14th to the 20th century. Using the British Museum's world-renowned ceramics and prints collections as a base, the authors have challenged and interrogated a variety of ceramic objects--from teapots to chamber pots--to discover new meanings that are as relevant today as they were when they were first conceived.
Series Statement
Research publication, 1747-3640 ; 229
Uniform Title
Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 229.
Alternative Title
Ceramics with an agenda, from the 14th to the 20th century
Subject
  • Pottery > Europe > History
  • Pottery > Asia > History
  • Politics in art
  • Prints > Europe > History
  • Prints > Asia > History
  • Pottery
  • Printing
  • Asia
  • Europe
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index.
Contents
Introduction / Patricia Ferguson -- 1. Pots, prints and politics in China? Some examples from the 14th to the 17th centuries / Yu-Ping Luk -- 2. A fourteenth century Longquan pot with a dual purpose / Elaine Buck -- 3. Illustrated hagiographies and figure production in late Ming Fujian / Wenyuan Xin -- 4. 'Take note' : the construction of political allegories of the Sack of Rome (1527) on Italian Renaissance maiolica in the British Museum / Dora Thornton -- 5. War on a plate : the Battle of Mülhberg on a maiolica dish in the Wallace Collection, London / Elisa Paola Sani -- 6. Prints and post-Palissian ceramics / Claire Blakey and Rachel King -- 7. Exotic self-reflections : fashioning Chinese porcelain for European eyes / Helen Glaister -- 8. 'Aux plaisirs des dames' : designing and redesigning a Meissen bourdaloue / Catrin Jones -- 9. Myth and materiality : Admiral Anson's Chinese armorial dinner service at Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire / Patricia F. Ferguson -- 10. From 'stampa' and 'riporto' to 'giochi di bambini' : transfer-printing and iconographic sources at Carlo Ginori's porcelain manufactory at Doccia / Alessandro Biancalana -- 11. Jefferyes Hamett O'Neale (act. 1750-1801) : porcelain painter and print designer / Sheila O'Connell -- 12. Propaganda on pots: 'King Louis's Last Interview with his Family' on a creamware mug, 1793-95 / Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth -- 13. Pots for poets : ceramics up-close in Japanese prints, including Hokusai's Everything Concerning Horses / Mary Redfern -- 14. "Remember them that are in bonds" : a plate made for the abolition movement / Ronald W. Fuchs II and Patricia Ferguson -- 15. Appropriated heroes : prints, pots and political symbols in revolutionary China / Mary Ginsberg.
Call Number
JQG 22-629
ISBN
  • 9780861592296
  • 0861592298
OCLC
1242733933
Title
Pots, prints and politics : ceramics with an agenda, from the 14th to the 20th century / edited by Patricia F. Ferguson.
Publisher
London : The British Museum, [2021]
Copyright Date
©2021
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Research publication, 1747-3640 ; 229
Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 229.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-159) and index.
Added Author
Ferguson, Patricia F., editor.
Research Call Number
JQG 22-629
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