New Making: Cultures of Quotidian Pottery and Porcelain Mending in the Long Eighteenth Century

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My doctoral project will explore lower-status household pottery and porcelain mending in Britain between 1660 and 1830,championing these repair cultures as an important and under-studied facet of consumption in the long eighteenthcentury. The diverse practices of china-burning, metal-lacing, gluing, riveting, filling and wire-binding are often passedover by scholars and concealed by museological practice. Informed by new materialist and actor-network-theoreticperspectives, I will provide an innovative new study exploring ceramic repair as a 'remaking' where the agencies oftrades people, servants, ceramicists, householders, diners, cooks and materials intermixed. Research will combinetraditional archive and collections based methodologies with parallel experimental reconstructive approaches to drawvisual and textual material from MS receipt books, advertisements, trade cards, household accounts and probateinventories together with the rich landscape of ceramic collections and archeological assemblages which surroundCambridge. I will take my material sources predominantly from the Fitzwilliam Museum's unique Glaisher ceramics,collaborating with the Museum under the co-supervision of Keeper of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts DrVictoria Avery to integrate this often ignored and erased history into our broader understanding of eighteenth-centuryconsumption.