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Issue 21 – November 2021

Redefining the British Decorative Arts Edited by Iris Moon

Michelle Erickson, *Wild Tweets* (dithered detail), 2021, high temperature wood-fired indigenous North Carolina porcelain, height 8 in. Collection of the artist. Digital image courtesy of the artist / Photograph by Robert Hunter (all rights reserved).

INTRODUCTION

Unhomely: Redefining the British Decorative Art

By Iris Moon

ARTICLE

England Am I?: Elizabethan Clothing, Gender, and Crisis in Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

By Sarah Bochicchio

ARTICLE

Microorganisms, Microscopes, and Victorian Design Theories

By Ariane Varela Braga

ARTICLE

Tarnished Silver: Interpreting the Material Culture of the Atlantic Slave Trade Negotiations of 1715

By Max Bryant

ARTICLE

Cherokee Unaker, British Ceramics, and Productions of Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century Atlantic Worlds

By R. Ruthie Dibble Joseph Mizhakii Zordan

ARTICLE

Defining a New Femininity? Josiah Wedgwood’s Portrait Medallions of Sarah Siddons and his “Femmes Célèbres”

By Patricia F. Ferguson

ARTICLE

Classical Histories, Colonial Objects: The Specimen Table Across Time and Space

By Freya Gowrley

ARTICLE

Serving as Ornament: The Representation of African People in Early Modern British Interiors and Gardens

By Hannah Lee

ARTICLE

Ruth Ellis’s Suit

By Lynda Nead

ARTICLE

Colonial Trash to Island Treasure: The Chaney of St. Croix

By Jessica Priebe

ARTICLE

In the Flesh at the Heart of Empire: Life-Likeness in Wax Representations of the 1762 Cherokee Delegation in London

By Ianna Recco

ARTIST COLLABORATION

Wild Porcelain

By Michelle Erickson

ONE OBJECT

The Chelsea Porcelain Case, British Galleries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Convened by Iris Moon

INTERVIEW

Unpacking Wedgwood: An Interview with Roberto Visani

Interview between Caitlin Meehye Beach Roberto Visani

VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

What’s in a Label?: Revising Narratives of the Decorative Arts in Museum Displays

Convened by Iris Moon

IN THE ARTIST'S WORDS

Another Crossing: Artists Revisit the Mayflower Voyage

By Glenn Adamson

LOOK FIRST

In Sparkling Company: Presenting Eighteenth-Century Britain in Western New York State

By Christoper Maxwell