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Valentines Mansion Case Study: Valentines’ East India Company Owners and...

Plate decorated with the arms of Charles Raymond and his wife, Sarah Webster. China, c.1760, Porcelain. Private collection. Image courtesy of Georgina Green. As this section of the case study reveals...

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Aske Hall Case Study: The Dundas Property Portfolio

The Dundas Property Portfolio: ‘Conquests from North to South’ After receiving his baronetcy in 1762 (and the death of his father the same year) Lawrence Dundas began a ten year campaign of purchasing...

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Shugborough Case Study: China in the Eighteenth-Century British Landscape

Plate. Jingdezhen, China. Wanli reign (1573-1620). Porcelain decorated in underglaze cobalt blue. London: Victoria and Albert Museum. C.588-1922. Chinese decorative objects such as porcelain had been...

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Shugborough Case Study: The Chinese House, c.1747

Chinese House, Shugborough, Staffordshire. Image courtesy of Stephen McDowall. Such was the domestic context in which a Chinese House, complete with boathouse, was erected on an island in an artificial...

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Josiah Child and the Wanstead Estate Case Study

  Josiah Child and the Wanstead Estate By Hannah Armstrong Please note that this case study was first published on blogs.ucl.ac.uk/eicah in April 2014. The case study was last checked by the project...

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Sezincote case study: Sezincote: A Brief Description

Figure 2: East façade, Sezincote; the copper Mughal-style dome dominates the skyline. Photograph by Jan Sibthorpe © 2013. Sezincote: A Brief Description By the standards of early nineteenth-century...

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sezincote case study: making choices, building houses, finding inspiration

Figure 9: South front of Sezincote showing the sweep of the orangery from the house to the pavilion. Note the peacock tail windows on the house and the orangery. Photograph by Jan Sibthorpe © 2014....

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sezincote case study: building sezincote: building a reputation

Figure 12: Thomas Daniell, ‘Design for the Indian Bridge at Sezincote, Moreton-in-Marsh’, RIBA 3951. Image courtesy of RIBA Library, Drawings and Archives Collections. Building Sezincote: Building a...

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Middleton Hall Case Study

Figure 1. ‘Middleton Hall Front View’, lithograph by Augustus Butler. 1853. Image courtesy of Lowri Ann Rees. Middleton Hall, Carmarthenshire by Lowri Ann Rees   Please note that this case study was...

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Robert Smith and Redcliffe Towers Case Study

  Figure 1. The Hotel Redcliffe (Redcliffe Towers), Paignton, Devon, early 20th century. © The Redcliffe Hotel. A Fairy Palace in Devon: Redcliffe Towers, built by Colonel Robert Smith (1787-1873),...

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