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

乔治•里耶洛（Giorgio Riello）认为，德•胡琦（de Hooch）的《优雅公司的休闲时光》（Leisure Time in Elegant Company）中，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。在哈姆的收藏中，我们可以超越绘画图像，分析十七世纪的室内环境。在汉姆工作一季，我到处读全球；从画廊里的瓷器和日本家具到范·戴克和查理二世的向日葵和菠萝的照片。看到伊丽莎白和非洲随从的画像，我的思绪飘到了劳德代尔酒店与RAC的联系上，我想知道是什么亚洲香料或美国根进入了她的posset或still house。在攻读博士学位期间，我希望先调查这些藏品的起源，然后再推断这些独特的藏品能告诉我们全球商品对精英自我塑造的重要性。这项工作将适应不断扩大的全球物质文化领域。除了对Riello的说法进行测试外，这项工作还将为Nuno Senos在布拉干帕拉第5公爵的清单中对帝国的工作提供比较伴奏。火腿之家提供了一个机会，通过对来自美洲和亚洲的商品的分析，将沃廷关于大西洋世界商品重要性的论文测试和扩展到劳德代尔伦敦的政治和文化中。这项工作也将建立在Misha Ewen对两个关系密切的姐妹的纽芬兰瓷器收藏的分析之上。在她对欧洲和中国陶器考古遗迹的分析中，她发现了殖民权力的性别表达。这些不断扩大的学术文献提出了一些问题，我将在攻读博士学位时寻求答案。除了寻找房子的起源，我对这件作品能告诉我们的关于“印度”在收藏清单中的模糊使用感兴趣。如果它可以指来自加勒比海、印度、日本或新墨西哥的商品，这些地区及其产品在英国人的想象中是否处于同一空间？此外，这些全球性商品是精英们参与东西方殖民事业的简写吗？考虑到伊丽莎白在房子历史上的重要性，我也想更好地理解我们是否可以在收藏中读到她的代理。哈姆的收藏是家庭财富和关系的性别表达吗？我们能在房子里读到一个女人对帝国思想和殖民计划的参与吗？

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?