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Representation, consumption and the global world: a social and spatial history of collecting Asian porcelain in European palaces
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The aim of this research is to study in a European comparative perspective the reception of East Asian porcelain at early modern courts, from around 1450 to 1750. It focuses on establishing their representational meanings and the modalities of their displaying and collecting: from Iberia to Denmark and from England to the Holy Roman Empire, passing through France, Italy, the Low Countries and Germany. Its major interest are cases of massed display of objects, e.g., seventeenth- and eighteenth century porcelain cabinets and their sixteenth-century Iberian antecedents. This essay encompasses the early modern court history of porcelain consumption, from the first European monarchs to enter in contact with large quantities of Asian objects around 1450‒1500 to programmatic display rooms which integrated porcelain with architecture. It combines the analysis of architecture, objects, interiors, cultural practices and socio-political contexts of the creation of the display or the collection. Objects and spaces are seen as agents in the daily performance of sociability, production of knowledge, and formation of their users’ political and personal identity. The research also aims to showcase the transfers of the patterns of collecting Asian porcelain between courts, e.g. from Iberia to the Southern Netherlands around 1600, from Brussels to the Dutch Republic in the following decade, and shortly thereafter to France. By contextualising interiors and collections within a European perspective, for the first time a network of relations can be observed, until now obscured by isolating study cases to the confines of nation-states, ruling houses or restrictive time frames. The goal of studying architecture and objects together is also to write a history of exhibition spaces through the lens of a particular type of collectible: the history of both ‘traditional’ display rooms, such as cabinets, galleries and Kunstkammers, and of other types of spaces characterized by various degrees of privacy and representativity, such as bedchambers and reception rooms.
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History of Art History of architecture History of interiors Court studies Collecting Collections Consumption Gift giving Display Courts Design Palace Apartment Cabinet East Asian art Porcelain Porcelain cabinets Decorative arts