TY - JOUR
T1 - Linnaeus’ tea cup: Masculinities, affective networks and Chinese porcelain in 18th-century Sweden
AU - Van Gent, Jacqueline
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - © 2016 the Historical Associations of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.In 18th-century Sweden, Chinese porcelain, and in particular armorial services, became one of the most desirable material markers of the social status of the elite and was consciously used to promote dynastic or personal power and aspirations. This article discusses social, affective and gendered relations that developed around acquisition, ordering and display of armorial porcelain and the resulting nexus between porcelain traded by the Swedish East India Company and processes of cultural and gendered identity-making of the male Swedish elite. This paper alludes to 18th-century male anxieties about the gender order in relation to Chinese objects (such as porcelain) and also Chinese subjects (such as the visiting Chinese merchant Afock).
AB - © 2016 the Historical Associations of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.In 18th-century Sweden, Chinese porcelain, and in particular armorial services, became one of the most desirable material markers of the social status of the elite and was consciously used to promote dynastic or personal power and aspirations. This article discusses social, affective and gendered relations that developed around acquisition, ordering and display of armorial porcelain and the resulting nexus between porcelain traded by the Swedish East India Company and processes of cultural and gendered identity-making of the male Swedish elite. This paper alludes to 18th-century male anxieties about the gender order in relation to Chinese objects (such as porcelain) and also Chinese subjects (such as the visiting Chinese merchant Afock).
U2 - 10.1080/03468755.2016.1179836
DO - 10.1080/03468755.2016.1179836
M3 - Article
VL - 41
SP - 388
EP - 409
JO - Scandinavian Journal of History
JF - Scandinavian Journal of History
SN - 0346-8755
IS - 3
ER -