MATERIAL ENCOUNTERS OF THE EAST INDIA TRADE 1600-1850
1 and 2 July, Ashmolean Museum in Oxford
DAY 1 (1st of July):
10.30-11.00
11.00-11.05
11.05-11.20
Register & Coffee
Welcome - Maxine Berg (University of Warwick, Project Leader)
Some preliminary findings from the ‘Trading Eurasia – Europe’s Asian Centuries’
Project
Session 1: Collecting the Companies
11.20-12.30 Chair: Chris Nierstrasz, (University of Warwick)
11.25-11.40
Anna Jackson (Keeper, Asian Department,Victoria and Albert Museum, London),
‘Encounters: exhibiting the material culture of trade and exchange’.
11.40-11.55
Lars Olof Loof (City Museum, Gothenburg), ‘Remains and Collections from the
Swedish East India Compnay in the Gothenburg City Museum’.
11.55-12.10
Berit Eldvik (Nordiske Museet, Stockholm), ‘Tracing the history of the English East
India Company through fabric in the Nordiske Museum’.
12.10-12.25
Martine Gosselink (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
12.25 - 1.00
Questions
1.00 - 2.00
Buffet Lunch
Session 2: Part 1: The East - West Dialogue
2.00 - 3.15
Chair: Felicia Gottmann, (University of Warwick)
2.05 -2.20
Brigitte Nicolas (Head Curator, Musée de la Compagnie des Indes, Lorient)
‘The secret world of East-India-Company imported Indian textiles'
2.20-35
Kirsten Toftegaard (Danish Museum of Art & Design, Copenhagen)
‘Encounters in patterns between East and West’
2.35-2.50
2.50-3.15
Sonia Ashmore (Research Fellow, Victoria and Albert Museum, London),
‘How the muslin trade embodied relations between Britain and India’
Questions
Object Handling Sessions
3.15 - 5.00
Clare Pollard – Lacquer
Dinah Reynolds - Chinese Export Porcelain
Shelagh Vainker & Ruth Barnes - Textiles
5.00 -5.30
Coffee Break
Session 2: Part 2: The East - West Dialogue
5.30
Chair: Helen Clifford (University of Warwick)
5.30-5.45
Jessica Harrison-Hall (Curator, Department of Asia, British Museum, London),
‘Distinctions in design transfer’
5.45-6.00
Luisa Mengoni (Victoria and Albert Museum, London),
‘Special orders and transmission of designs from Europe to China’
6.00 -6.30
Questions
7.30 Workshop Dinner
DAY 2 (2nd of July)
Session 3: The Private Trade
10.10-11.30 Chair: Hanna Hodacs, (University of Warwick)
10.15-10.30 Menno Fitski (Curator of East Asian Art, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam),
Kakiemon and the trade in Japanese porcelain’
10.30-10.45 Roger Smith (Independent Historian, London),
’The Emperor’s Clocks - presents, tribute or trade?’
10.45-11.00
Patrick Conner (Martyn Gregory, London), ‘Odd Fancys hit well' - Chinese export
painting in the 18th century’
11.00-11.30 Questions
11.30-12.00
Coffee Break
Session 4: East India Trade Objects and the Interior
12.00-1.30
Chair: Margot Finn (University of Warwick)
12.05-12.20
Kevin Rogers (Architectural historian and Associate Director, Peter Inskip Associates,
London),
‘Fabrics connected with the East India Company in London merchant inventories’
12.20-12.35
Kévin Le Doudic (CERHIO CNRS, European University of Brittany, University of South
Brittany, Lorient, France),
‘From Artefact to Daily Life Environment: The ‘East India Company Style’, in the
Eighteenth Century Pondicherry Trading Post’
12.35-1.00
Questions
1.00-1.30
Concluding Discussion & Summary - Maxine Berg
1.30-2.30 Buffet Lunch at Ashmolean
END OF WORKSHOP