Patricia F. Ferguson is an external adviser on ceramics to The National Trust, having researched their collections since 2003 and is a consulting curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. She has an MA from SOAS, University of London, where she studied Chinese, Japanese and Safavid ceramics. At the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, she redisplayed the European galleries, curated 'Containers of Beauty: the Art of Floral Display' and 'Your Presence is requested: the Art of Dining in eighteenth-century Europe', and was author of Cobalt Treasures: The Robert Murray Bell and Ann Walker Bell Collection of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain (2003).
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Exotica to Domestica: Anglicizing the foreign, 1550-1695
2. Chinoiserie: competing global counterfeits, 1685-1750
3. Genteel Curiosities for Tea, Table and Chimney, 1745-65
4. The Grand Tourist: 'vase madness' and the antique, 1765-89
5. Revolution: Napoleon and Francophile taste 1789-1825
6. Ceramics Victorious: from taxing heirlooms to collecting antiques 1825-1950
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