The World by the Thames: Global Materiality and Elite Self-Fashioning in the Seventeenth-Century Collections of Ham House, Surrey

泰晤士河畔的世界：萨里 Ham House 十七世纪收藏中的全球物质性和精英自我塑造

• 批准号: 2739032
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: The Open University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2739032
• 关键词: World; Thames; Global; Materiality; Elite

Giorgio Riello argues de Hooch's Leisure Time in Elegant Company with its Turkish carpet, tobacco, beaver hat and porcelain exemplifies the power of global goods in early modern interiors as expressions of status. In Ham's collection we can move beyond painted images to analyse a seventeenth-century interior in situ. Working a season at Ham I read the global everywhere; from the porcelain and japanned furniture in the gallery to images of Van Dyck and Charles II with sunflower and pineapple. My mind drifted to the Lauderdale's connection to the RAC on sight of the portrait of Elizabeth with African attendant and I wondered what Asian spices or American roots entered her posset or still house. During this PhD I wish to investigate the origins of the collection before extrapolating what this unique set of objects can tell us about the significance of global goods to elite self-fashioning. This work will fit into the expanding field of global material culture. As well as testing to Riello's claims, this work will also provide a comparative accompaniment to Nuno Senos's work upon empire within the inventories of the 5th Duke of Bragança. Ham House provides an opportunity to test and extend Working's thesis of the significance of Atlantic world goods to the politics and culture of the Lauderdales' London with an analysis of goods from both the Americas and Asia. This work will also build upon Misha Ewen's analysis of the Newfoundland porcelain collections of two well-connected sisters. In her analysis of archaeological survivals of European and Chinese pottery she found a gendered expression colonial power. This expanding scholarly literature poses questions that I shall seek to answer in the PhD. Beyond seeking out the origins of the house I am interested in what this work can tell us about the ambiguous use of 'Indian' in collection inventory. If it could refer to goods from the Caribbean, India, Japan or New Mexico did these regions and their products sit in the same space in the English imagination? Furthermore, were such global goods an elite shorthand for involvement in colonial enterprise in both the east and west? Considering the importance of Elizabeth within the history of the house, I would also like to better understand whether we can read her agency in the collection. Was Ham's collection a gendered expression of the family's wealth and connection? Can we read in the house a woman's involvement in imperial thinking and colonial projects?

Giorgio Riello 认为 de Hooch 的《优雅公司的休闲时光》及其土耳其地毯、烟草、海狸帽和瓷器体现了全球商品在早期现代室内装饰中作为地位表达的力量。在 Ham 的收藏中，我们可以超越绘画图像来分析第 17 世纪的艺术。在 Ham 工作了一季，我读遍了世界各地的事物，从画廊里的瓷器和日本家具到范戴克和查理二世的图像。看到伊丽莎白和非洲服务员的肖像，我的思绪飘到了劳德代尔堡与 RAC 的联系上，我想知道什么亚洲香料或美国根源进入了她的 posset 或蒸馏室。在推断这组独特的物品可以告诉我们全球商品对精英自我时尚的重要性之前，我们先了解一下这个系列。这项工作将适应不断扩大的全球物质文化领域，同时也是对 Riello 主张的检验。该作品还将为努诺·塞诺斯在第五代布拉干萨公爵的库存中对帝国的研究提供一个比较性的补充，哈姆之家提供了一个机会来检验和扩展沃金关于大西洋世界商品对劳德代尔堡政治和文化的重要性的论文。伦敦对来自美洲和亚洲的商品进行了分析，这项工作还将建立在 Misha Ewen 对两个关系密切的姐妹的纽芬兰瓷器收藏的分析基础上。在对欧洲和中国陶器的考古遗存的研究中，她发现了一种性别化的殖民权力表达。这种不断扩大的学术文献提出了我将在博士学位中寻求回答的问题，除了寻找这座房子的起源之外，我对这项工作能告诉我们什么感兴趣。关于“印度”在收藏清单中的模糊使用，如果它可以指代来自加勒比海、印度、日本或新墨西哥的商品，那么这些地区及其产品在英国人的想象中是否处于同一位置？精英参与殖民的简写考虑到伊丽莎白在品牌历史中的重要性，我还想更好地了解我们是否可以在系列中解读她的作品是否是家族财富和关系的性别表达？我们能在房子里读到一个女人对帝国思想和殖民项目的参与吗？