Experimentation and Placemaking: connecting communities with the technological and innovation histories of London's early porcelain manufacturers

这个项目将探索英国瓷器是如何发展起来的，特别是关注18世纪切尔西和弓工厂的工作，这两家工厂是英国最早的两家生产所谓软膏瓷器的制造商，当时创造这种瓷器是为了复制令人垂涎的中国和日本出口瓷器，并与迈森、杜帕奎尔和尚蒂伊等欧洲同行竞争。该项目汇集了维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆(V&A)、阿什莫尔博物馆和纽汉档案馆的瓷器收藏品，将利用维多利亚和阿尔伯特博物馆CapCo资助的科学实验室扩大的能力来追踪伦敦的瓷器实验、制造和贸易网络，展示这三个收藏品中鲜为人知的物品。它将展示利用科学引领的分析在遗产和文化史研究中产生新的理解，V&A实验室作为国家遗产科学中心的作用，并将通过V&A实验室为公众提供接触陶瓷收藏品的新方式的机会。公众参与计划将包括为六年级学生举办的“博物馆科学家一天”工作坊，将使用历史陶瓷配方创作新作品的陶瓷制作课程，以及伦敦陶瓷步行街和斯特拉特福德图书馆的新弓陶瓷展示，展示纽汉档案馆鲜为人知的陶瓷收藏品。考虑到弓和切尔西，我们将把伦敦两个目前和未来的V&A遗址占据的地区--伦敦西部的南肯辛顿和伦敦东部的斯特拉特福德(一个新的收藏品仓库和一个新的V&A博物馆将分别于2024年和2025年开放)，都集中在工艺、制造和创新上。对精选瓷器的科学分析将提供一个独特的机会，专注于试验、设计、制造和制造人们梦寐以求的西方白体瓷器的过程，并探索18世纪陶瓷先驱的创造力和独创性如何为当前和未来的制造者和艺术家提供灵感。

This project will explore how English porcelain came to develop, focusing in particular on the work of the 18th-century Chelsea and Bow factories, the first two manufacturers in Great Britain to produce the so-called soft-paste porcelain, created at the time to replicate the highly coveted Chinese and Japanese export porcelain and to compete with European counterparts in Meissen, Du Paquier and Chantilly. Bringing together porcelain collections at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), the Ashmolean Museum, and Newham Archives, the project will use the expanded capacity of the V&A's CapCo-funded Scientific Laboratory to trace London porcelain experimentation, manufacturing and trade networks, showcasing little known objects from the three collections. It will demonstrate the uses of science-led analysis to generate new understandings in heritage and cultural history research, the role of the V&A Lab as a national hub for heritage science, and will offer the general public opportunities for new ways of engaging with ceramics collections through the V&A Lab. The public engagement programme will include 'museum scientist for a day' workshops for 6th form students, ceramics making sessions in which historic porcelain recipes will be used to create new work, as well as London ceramics walks and a new Bow ceramic display at Stratford Library, showcasing Newham Archives' little-known ceramics collections.In considering Bow and Chelsea we will be bringing together two areas of London occupied by current and future V&A sites - South Kensington in West London and Stratford in East London (where a new collections Storehouse and a new V&A Museum are due to open in 2024 and 2025 respectively), both with a strong focus on craft, making and innovation. The scientific analysis of the select porcelain pieces will provide a unique opportunity to focus on the process of experimenting with, designing, making and manufacturing much-desired western white body porcelain, and explore how the creativity and ingenuity of 18th-century ceramics pioneers may provide inspiration for current and future makers and artists.