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5 Louise Tythacott, The Lives of Chinese Objects: Buddhism, Imperialism and Display,
Museums and Collections, vol. 3 (Oxford: Berghan Books, 2011), 83–105.
6 James L. Hevia, English Lessons: The Pedagogy of Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century
China (Durham: Duke University Press, 2003), 95–99; Hevia, “Loot’s Fate: the Economy
of Plunder and the Moral Life of Objects ‘From the Summer Palace of the Emperor of
China’,” History and Anthropology 6, no. 4 (1994): 326–331.
7 “Exhibition of Industrial and Ornamental Art,” Western Daily Press, July 26, 1861.
8 “Exhibition of Industrial Art in the National Gallery,” Caledonian Mercury, November
12, 1861.
9 Official Catalogue of the Exhibition of Industrial and Decorative Art 1861 in the National
Gallery Buildings. With an Introductory Notice by W. B. Johnstone, R.S.A., Art Super -
intendent, 6th ed. (Edinburgh: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1861), 73–75.
10 Ibid., 74, nos. 1191, 1194, 1201, 1211.
11 Catalogue of the Special Loan Exhibition of Enamels on Metal Held at the South Kensing -
ton Museum in 1874 (London: Chiswick Press, 1875), 133, nos. 1087, 1088.
12 J. Beavington Atkinson, Handbook to the Bristol Exhibition of Industrial & Ornamental
Art: Held at the Fine Arts’ Academy, Queen’s Road, 1861, 4th ed. (Bristol, 1861), 29.
13 Official Catalogue of the Exhibition of Industrial and Decorative Art 1861, 62.
14 Record of loan, January 18, 1861, Loan Register 1861 (MA/31/1), V&A Archives, 64.
15 “Reception at Broomhall House,” Dunfermline Saturday Press, July 16, 1887.
16 “Description of Pekin: Immense Booty & Destruction at the Emperor’s Summer Palace,”
Liverpool Mercury, January 15, 1861.
17 Record of loan, June 27, 1861, Loan Register 1861 (MA/31/1), V&A Archives, 46.
18 Official Catalogue of the Exhibition of Industrial and Decorative Art 1861, 68, no. 1004;
Atkinson, Handbook to the Bristol Exhibition, 29.
19 Henry Knollys, ed., Incidents in the China War of 1860, Compiled from the Private
Journals of General Sir Hope Grant (Edinburgh: William Blackwood & Sons, 1875),
194.
20 Official Catalogue of the Exhibition of Industrial and Decorative Art 1861, 5.
21 Atkinson, Handbook to the Bristol Exhibition, 22–23.
22 Ibid., 9–10.
23 Official Catalogue of the Exhibition of Industrial and Decorative Art 1861, 15–16.
24 Joseph Marryat, A History of Pottery and Porcelain, 2nd ed. (London: John Murray,
1857), 198–200.
25 Catalogue of the Art Treasures of the United Kingdom: Collected at Manchester in 1857
(London: Bradbury & Evans, 1857), 144–145.
26 “Exhibition of Industrial Art in the National Gallery,” Caledonian Mercury, November
12, 1861.
27 “Annual Conversazione of the School of Art,” Sheffield Independent, January 22, 1862.
28 Susan Weber, “The Reception of Chinese Cloisonné Enamel in Europe and America,”
in Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties, ed. Béatrice
Quette (New York: Bard Graduate Center, 2011), 187–221, examines Chinese enamel
collecting in the late nineteenth century.
29 Nick Pearce, “From Relic to Relic: a Brief History of the Skull of Confucius,” Journal
of the History of Collections 26, no. 2 (2014).
30 “The International Exhibition,” Morning Post, September 19, 1862.
31 The International Exhibition of 1862. The Illustrated Catalogue of the Industrial Depart -
ment. Colonial and Foreign Departments (London: Her Majesty’s Commissioners, 1862),
3:43.
32 Gordon to Charles Harvey, 25 October 1860, Maj.-Gen. Charles George Gordon
(‘Chinese Gordon’): letters to his friend and fellow officer, Col. Charles Elwyn Harvey,
R.E.; 1859–1883, Add MS 87369–87370, British Library.
33 R.J.L. McGhee, How We Got to Pekin. A Narrative of the Campaign in China of 1860
(London: Richard Bentley, 1862), 203; Robert Swinhoe, Narrative of the North China
Campaign of 1860 (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1861), 294–296.
34 “The Great International Exhibition,” Bucks Herald, May 24, 1862.
35 “The Great Exhibition: Oriental Nations,” North Devon Journal, July 17, 1862.