Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France
- Submitting institution
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University of Northumbria at Newcastle
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 28005035
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- B - Edited book
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10.4324/9781315113395
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- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781138080553
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- Month of publication
- October
- Year of publication
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Additional information
- This collection, edited by Tythacott, developed from a two–day international workshop funded by the Centre for Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester, “The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France: Representations of the ‘Summer Palace’ in the West”, July 2013. This included 13 speakers from France, Switzerland, US, Hong Kong and China and was attended by over 60 delegates including museum curators, auction house specialists, architects and journalists.
Tythacott's own chapter is based on extensive primary research, presenting an historic overview of the development of the Yuanmingyuan as well as documenting the lives of objects in auctions, exhibitions and museums in the West. Tythacott has undertaken extensive research in archives, compiled a database of over 1,300 Summer Palace objects auctioned in London, and visited and/or liaised with over 30 museums in the UK, Europe and China.
This publication was instrumental in Tythacott obtaining a philanthropic donation - £83,000 plus a fully funded research assistant for 18 months - to research the histories of objects from China’s Yuanmingyuan or “Summer Palace” in museums, libraries and archives in the UK and Paris from 2017-19. This research led directly to two other publications:
• ‘Exhibiting and Auctioning Yuanmingyuan ("Summer Palace") Loot in 1860s and 1870s London: The Elgin and Negroni Collections', in Journal for Art Market Studies, Vol 2, No 3 (2018), pp 1-15.
• ‘Practices of Provenancing “Summer Palace” loot in British and French museums’ in Jane Milosch, Jane and Pearce, Nick (eds) Collecting Cultures-Cultures of Collecting: A History through Provenance, Rowman & Littlefield Book (2019), pp 359-370.
It also laid the foundation for Tythacott’s forthcoming monograph, “The Summer Palace Diaspora” (c 100,000 words).
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