Ceramics: 400 years of British collecting in 100 masterpieces

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Exotica to domestica: anglicising the foreign 1550-1695

2. Chinoiserie: competing global counterfeits 1685-1750

3. Genteel curiosities: for tea, table and chimney 1745-65

4. The grand tourist: "vase madness" and the Antique 1765-89

5. Revolution: Napoleon and Francophile taste 1789-1825

6. Ceramics victorious: from taxonomishing heirlooms to collecting antiques 1825-1950.