Exhibiting and auctioning Yuanmingyuan ("Summer Palace") loot in 1860s and 1870s London : the Elgin and Negroni Collections
Louise Tythacott
This article examines the exhibitions and sales of Yuanmingyuan (or ‘Summer Palace’) loot taken from China in October 1860 by two soldiers in the Anglo-French armies - James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin (1811-1863) and Captain Jean-Louis de Negroni (b.1820). Both men displayed their collections before auctioning them - the former in the prestigious South Kensington Museum (now the V&A) in 1862; the latter in a well known exhibitionary site, the Crystal Palace in Sydenham in 1865. Such displays and public exhibitions were used as a device for enhancing the value of collections destined for the art market. This article thus explores the inter-relationship between museum/exhibition sites and auction houses in the selling of looted objects from China’s Yuanmingyuan in 1860s and 1870s London.
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2018
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Authors: | Tythacott, Louise |
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Journal for art market studies. - Berlin : Forum Kunst und Markt, ISSN 2511-7602, ZDB-ID 2884071-9. - Vol. 2.2018, 3, p. 1-15
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Subject: | Auktionstheorie | Auction theory | London | Großbritannien | United Kingdom | Auktion | Auction | Yuanmingyuan <Peking> | Kunstraub | Ausstellung | Handlung | Kunsthandel | Geschichte 1860-1880 |
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freely available
Extent: | Illustrationen |
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Type of publication: | Article |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Aufsatz in Zeitschrift ; Article in journal |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Gesehen am 10.09.2018 |
Other identifiers: | 10.23690/jams.v2i3.63 [DOI] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012206247
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