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Showcase Britain explores the diverse aspects of British participation in the Vienna World Exhibition of 1873. Britain’s contributions to the ceramic and Fine Art collections and comparisons with the participation of China, Japan and India are considered.



Showcase Britain explores the diverse aspects of British participation in the Vienna World Exhibition (Weltausstellung) of 1873. The exhibition covered a vast spectrum of human endeavour and achievement. The British involvement encompassed not only the national submission but also the British individuals who visited and contributed to the displays.

The book offers a snapshot of British aspirations and commerce at a singular point in history through the lens of the exhibition. The central theme is explored through various perspectives: the ceramic collections, the Fine Art collections, British connections with China, the act of collecting, the visitor experience, and the mobility and re-use of collections, with particular reference to the display from India. The British submission is compared and contrasted throughout with that of the government of Japan, a newcomer to international shows, whose collections presented a competitor to Britain’s and a focus for British acquisition and emulation. Finally, the exhibition is viewed in the wider context of international exhibitions held in London in the following decade.

List of Figures
ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1(4)
Chapter 1 `With No Maimed Rites': The Opening of the Vienna World Exhibition 1873
5(20)
Chapter 2 `A Department of Special Attraction': The British Ceramic Collections
25(26)
Chapter 3 `Brighter than the Dutch': The British Fine Art Court
51(12)
Chapter 4 Edward C. Bowra and the Chinese Submission
63(20)
Chapter 5 The Acquisitive Tourist: A British Collector of Japanese Art in Vienna
83(14)
Chapter 6 `A Fine Show': John Forbes Watson, Travelling Collections and the Indian Court
97(16)
Chapter 7 The Legacy of the Vienna Exhibition
113(18)
Appendix 1 The Twenty-Six Categories, Vienna 1873 131(2)
Appendix 2 W. P. Blake and H. Pettit, Reports on the Vienna Universal Exhibition, 1873 133(2)
Appendix 3 Items Loaned by Edward C. Bowra and Archdeacon Gray to the Vienna Exhibition 135(6)
Appendix 4 The 1873 Japanese Ceramic Exhibits 141(8)
Appendix 5 The British Companies Submitting Ceramic Collections to Group IX 149(4)
Appendix 6 A List of Artists Contributing to the Fine Art Section 153(6)
Appendix 7 Edward C. Bowra and the Chinese Port Catalogues 159(10)
Appendix 8 Table of Statistics from J. V. Meigs, General Report upon the Exposition at Vienna (1873) 169(4)
Bibliography 173(8)
Index 181
Christina Baird holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, with a thesis on British trade with China during the nineteenth century. She previously held a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. She now works as an independent historian and writer.