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

我的博士项目将探索1660年至1830年间英国地位较低的家用陶器和瓷器修补，将这些修补文化作为漫长的18世纪消费中一个重要而未被研究的方面。中国的各种做法--焚烧、金属绑扎、粘合、铆接、填充、捆线，往往被学者们忽略，被博物馆学实践所掩盖。在新唯物主义和行为者网络理论的启发下，我将提供一项创新的新研究，探索陶瓷维修作为一种重新制作的方式，在这种情况下，代理机构将人、仆人、陶艺师、房主、食客、厨师和材料混合在一起。研究将结合传统的基于档案和收藏的方法与平行的实验重建方法，从MS收据账簿、广告、贸易卡、家庭账户和遗嘱清单中提取视觉和文本材料，以及剑桥周围丰富的陶瓷收藏和考古组合景观。我将主要从Fitzwilliam博物馆独特的Glaisher陶瓷中获取我的材料来源，在欧洲雕塑和装饰艺术保管员Victoria Avery博士的共同监督下与博物馆合作，将这段经常被忽视和抹去的历史融入我们对18世纪消费的更广泛理解中。

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.