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Clark, Leah R.
(2020).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhy063
Abstract
The Medici of Florence have long been acknowledged as possessing the largest collection of Chinese porcelain in the fifteenth century, but this article reveals that in fact Eleonora d’Aragona, Duchess of Ferrara had the largest such collection in Italy at this time. In fifteenth-century Europe, porcelain came not directly from China but rather through trade and diplomacy with foreign courts, so that its peregrinations gave rise to entangled histories and reception. Taking porcelain as a case-study, it is argued here that examining collecting through the lens of trade and diplomacy provides new interpretations of – and demands new approaches to – the history of collecting.
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- Item ORO ID
- 57522
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1477-8564
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body The Peregrinations of Porcelain: Touch, Transfer, and Translation in Cross Cultural Exchange (1450-1500) SG151914 BRITAC British Academy - Keywords
- collecting; porcelain; Ferrara; Eleonora d'Aragona; cross-cultural exchange; Italian courts; Renaissance
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > Art History
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
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- © 2019 Leah R. Clark
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- Leah Clark