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Conference paper (unpublished)
Royal Jewels and Relics in the National Collections panel: Renaissance Jewels, a Scottish style?
McGill, Lyndsay
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Our friends in the north: Stanwick, Traprain Law, and the encroaching Roman world
Over his career, Colin has worked on and around two of the major Iron Age centres of central Britain – Stanwick in North Yorkshire and Traprain Law in East Lothian. Both are unusual within their regional contexts in scale, activities, and their extensive contacts with the Roman world. In comparing...Hunter, Fraser
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Lecture
The Minch torc and its place in Bronze Age Britain and Ireland
In 1991, fishermen pulled up a Bronze Age gold torc while dredging for scallops in the Minch, off the Shiant Isles in the Hebrides. Matt Knight, Senior Curator of Prehistory at National Museums Scotland, explores the significance of the Minch torc and sets it in the wider context of other...Knight, Matthew
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Feasting with Latinus: Whithorn as the seat of a Late Antique regulus
The excavations led by the late Peter Hill at Whithorn, Dumfries and Galloway are widely understood as revealing one of the earliest monasteries in Britain. While the early Christian site is undoubtedly significant, new analysis and dating evidence is forcing a rethink of the earliest phases of the sequence. A...Maldonado, Adrián
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Lecture
National Museums Scotland Roundtable: “Images of the Buddha: Collecting Histories and the Displays of Buddhist Material in Public Museums”
Research into the nature and the building of public and private collections has been an area of study for scholars and museum professionals for several decades. More recently, the collecting of objects from non-European and indigenous cultures in the context of national imperial histories has come to the front of...Martin, Emma ; Voigt, Friederike ; De Raat, Marjolein ; Cheung, Karwin
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Collecting and displaying Buddhist objects from South Asia at National Museums Scotland
he multidisciplinary displays at Scotland’s national museum in Chambers Street feature a substantial number of Buddhist objects, and particularly, small and larger-scale images of the Buddha. Although in different thematic galleries, they are primarily presented as objects of art with a religious connotation, an interpretative approach that was established in...Voigt, Friederike
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Taking the Buddha out of Buddhism: provenance of two Japanese Buddhist statues
National Museums Scotland have two large Buddhist sculptures in their collections: a statue of Amida Buddha that is on display in the Grand Gallery, and a statue of Sho-Kannon in the East Asia Gallery. Provenance research on these statues has shown that both were imported into the UK at the...De Raat, Marjolein
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Conference paper (unpublished)
Yellow flag with dragon patterns – a Buddhist object with imperial associations in the National Museum of Scotland
Yuanmingyuan, also known as the Old Summer Palace, is infamous for its destruction by Anglo-French military forces in 1860. Numerous imperial objects were looted and subsequently dispersed throughout various public, private and royal collections outside China. These imperial Chinese collections had a significant impact on the perception of Chinese art...Cao, Qin