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?

乔治·里埃洛认为，De Hooch在优雅的公司的休闲时光，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作为地位的表达的力量。在Ham的收藏中，我们可以超越绘画图像，现场分析17世纪的室内。在Ham的一季工作中，我阅读了世界各地的报纸；从画廊里的瓷器和日本家具，到范·戴克和查尔斯二世用向日葵和菠萝绘制的图像。当我看到伊丽莎白和非洲服务员的肖像时，我的脑海里浮现出劳德代尔夫妇与RAC的联系，我想知道是什么亚洲香料或美国根进入了她的作品集或静止的房子。在这个博士期间，我希望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塑造的重要性之前，先调查这些收藏的起源。这项工作将适应不断扩大的全球物质文化领域。除了测试里洛的主张，这部作品还将与努诺·塞诺斯在第五世布拉干萨公爵的清单中关于帝国的作品进行比较。火腿屋提供了一个机会，通过对来自美洲和亚洲的商品的分析，测试和扩展沃克关于大西洋世界商品对劳德代尔伦敦政治和文化的意义的论点。这项工作还将建立在米莎·埃文对纽芬兰两个人脉深厚的姐妹的瓷器收藏品的分析基础上。在她对欧洲和中国陶器考古遗存的分析中，她发现了殖民力量的性别表达。这些不断扩大的学术文献提出了一些问题，我将在博士学位上寻求答案。除了找出这座房子的起源，我感兴趣的是这部作品能告诉我们什么，关于藏品清单中印第安人的模棱两可的用法。如果可以指来自加勒比海、印度、日本或新墨西哥州的商品，那么在英国人的想象中，这些地区及其产品是否处于同一空间？此外，这样的全球商品是不是东方和西方参与殖民企业的精英速记？考虑到伊丽莎白在这座房子的历史上的重要性，我也想更好地了解我们是否可以从她的收藏中读到她的机构。哈姆的收藏是对家族财富和关系的性别表达吗？我们可以在房子里读到一个女人参与帝国思想和殖民项目的情况吗？