Patricia Ferguson is Project Curator, European 18th-Century Ceramics at the British Museum and until 2017 was a consulting curator in the Asian and Ceramics Departments of the Victoria and Albert Museum. As Honorary Adviser on Ceramics to the National Trust, she published, Ceramics: 400 Years of British Collecting in 100 Masterpieces (2016) and Garnitures: Vase Sets from National Trust Houses (2016).

• Introduction (Patricia Ferguson)1. The Convergence of Pots, Prints and Politics in China? Some 14th to 17th century examples (Yu-ping Luk, British Museum)2. A Fourteenth Century Longquan Pot with a Dual Purpose (Elaine Buck, SOAS)3. Hagiographical works and figure production in late Ming Fujian(Wenyuan Xin, British Museum)4. ‘Take note’: the construction of political allegories of the Sack of Rome (1527) on Italian Renaissance maiolica in the British Museum (Dora Thornton, Curator, Goldsmith’s Company)5. War on a Plate: the Battle of Mülhberg on a maiolica dish in the Wallace Collection, London (Elisa Sani, The Courtauld Gallery)6. Prints and Problematic Pots: Bernard Palissy, the post-Palisseans and the Palyssistes (Claire Blakey, Burrell Collection, and Rachel King, British Museum)7. Exotic self-reflections – fashioning Chinese porcelain for European eyes (Helen Glaister, Victoria and Albert Museum)8. ‘Aux plaisirs des dames’: designing and redesigning a Meissen bourdaloue (Catrin Jones, Wedgwood Museum)9. Myth and Materiality: Admiral Anson’s Chinese Armorial Dinner Service at Shugborough Hall, Staffordshire (Patricia Ferguson, British Museum)10. From ‘stampa’ and ‘riporto’ to ‘giochi di bambini’: transfer–printing and iconographic sources at Carlo Ginori’s Porcelain Manufactory at Doccia (Alessandro Biancalana, independent art historian and author)11. Jefferyes Hamett O’Neale (fl.1750-1801): porcelain painter and print designer (Sheila O’Connell, British Museum)12. Potty Propaganda? ‘King Louis’ Last Interview with his Family’ on a creamware mug, 1793-95 (Caroline McCaffrey-Howarth, University of Leeds)13. Pots for Poets: Ceramics up-close in Japanese prints, including Hokusai’s Everything Concerning Horses (Mary Redfern, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin)14. “Remember Them that are in Bonds”: A Plate Made for the Abolition Movement (Ronald W. Fuchs II, Reeves Center, Washington and Lee University, and Patricia Ferguson, British Museum)15. Appropriated Heroes: Prints, Pots and Political Symbols in Revolutionary China (Mary Ginsberg, British Museum)

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