Representation, consumption and the global world: a social and spatial history of collecting Asian porcelain in European palaces

Cieminska, Joanna Teresa

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Representation, consumption and the global world: a social and spatial history of collecting Asian porcelain in European palaces

2026-03-10Tese de doutoramento

datacite.subject.fos	Humanidades::Artes
datacite.subject.fos	Humanidades::História e Arqueologia
dc.contributor.advisor	Senos, Nuno
dc.contributor.author	Cieminska, Joanna Teresa
dc.date.accessioned	2026-06-01T11:20:31Z
dc.date.available	2026-06-01T11:20:31Z
dc.date.issued	2026-03-10
dc.description.abstract	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.	eng
dc.identifier.tid	101730985
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10362/203614
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation	Horizonte 2020 Grant Agreement 8861426
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subject	History of Art	en
dc.subject	History of architecture	en
dc.subject	History of interiors	en
dc.subject	Court studies	en
dc.subject	Collecting	en
dc.subject	Collections	en
dc.subject	Consumption	en
dc.subject	Gift giving	en
dc.subject	Display	en
dc.subject	Courts	en
dc.subject	Design	en
dc.subject	Palace	en
dc.subject	Apartment	en
dc.subject	Cabinet	en
dc.subject	East Asian art	en
dc.subject	Porcelain	en
dc.subject	Porcelain cabinets	en
dc.subject	Decorative arts	en
dc.title	Representation, consumption and the global world: a social and spatial history of collecting Asian porcelain in European palaces	eng
dc.title.alternative	Representation, consumption and the global world: a social and spatial history of collecting Asian porcelain in European palaces, 1450‒1750	eng
dc.type	doctoral thesis
dspace.entity.type	Publication
thesis.degree.name	Doutoramento em História da Arte na especialidade em História da Arte da Idade Moderna