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

乔治·列洛认为，德·霍赫的《优雅的休闲时光》中的土耳其地毯、烟草、海狸帽和瓷器，证明了全球商品在早期现代室内装饰中作为地位表达的力量。在哈姆的收藏中，我们可以超越绘画图像，在原地分析十七世纪的室内。在汉姆工作了一个赛季，我到处都能看到全球化的消息;从画廊里的瓷器和日本家具到货车戴克和查理二世与向日葵和菠萝的照片。看到伊丽莎白和非洲侍者的肖像，我的思绪飘到了劳德代尔与皇家空军的联系上，我想知道是什么亚洲香料或美国根源进入了她的房间。在这个博士学位期间，我希望在推断这套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，调查这些藏品的起源。这项工作将适应不断扩大的全球物质文化领域。除了对Riello的主张进行检验外，这项工作还将在第五任布拉干萨杜克的清单中为Nuno Senos关于帝国的工作提供比较伴奏。火腿之家提供了一个机会，以测试和扩展工作的论文的重要性，大西洋世界的货物的政治和文化的劳德代尔伦敦与分析货物从美洲和亚洲。这项工作也将建立在米沙埃文的分析纽芬兰瓷器收藏的两个良好的连接姐妹篇。在她对欧洲和中国陶器考古遗迹的分析中，她发现了一种带有性别色彩的殖民权力表达方式。 这些不断扩展的学术文献提出了一些问题，我将在博士论文中寻求答案。除了寻找房子的起源，我感兴趣的是这项工作可以告诉我们关于“印度”在收藏清单中的模糊使用。如果它可以指来自加勒比海、印度、日本或新墨西哥州的商品，那么这些地区及其产品在英国人的想象中是否处于同一个位置？此外，这些全球性商品是否是精英们参与东西方殖民事业的一个缩影？考虑到伊丽莎白在房子历史中的重要性，我也想更好地了解我们是否可以在收藏中阅读她的机构。哈姆的收藏是家族财富和关系的性别表达吗？我们能在房子里读到一个女人参与帝国思想和殖民项目吗？

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?