Tullia Catriona Fraser
Email: t.fraser.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Portfolio: tullia.fraser.com
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0979-6805
Research title: Shaping Taste, Building Knowledge: Collecting China in Scotland in the Early Twentieth Century
Research Summary
Project Abstract
The presence of Chinese material culture in Scotland has grown significantly over the last 200 years, much of it during Britain’s imperial expansion. My PhD research investigates the Scottish collecting of Chinese objects during the outlined period, currently held at National Museums Scotland (NMS) and selected Scottish museums. This collaborative doctoral project between the University of Glasgow and NMS explores the lives of selected collectors, what they collected, the reasons behind their collecting, and addresses the implications for museums wanting to use these collections to tell China’s history today.
Research Interests
- Provenance research of Chinese art
- Chinese lacquerware, furniture, and associated crafts
- History of antiquarianism and archaeology in Hong Kong
- Museums and collections histories
- Colonial legacies in museums
Supervisors
Grants
- SGSAH AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award
University of Glasgow and National Museums Scotland
October 2021–Present
- Research Training Support Grant
November 2021
- Doctoral Training Partnership
Asia Department and Research Institute, Victoria & Albert Museum
October–December 2022
Conference
Fraser, Tullia Catriona. "Collecting 'China' in Scotland in the Late Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century". Presentation, Chinese Material Culture in Global Contexts Workshop, Edinburgh Centre for Global History, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 15 March 2023.
Teaching
2022-2023
- HISTART1003: Art History in Action
- HISTART5125: Collecting and Display
Additional Information
Additional Roles
- Doctoral Training Partnership Fellow
Asia Department and Research Institute, Victoria & Albert Museum
Project title – Provenance Research: Minor Dealers of East Asian Objects to the Victoria and Albert Museum (Late 19th- Early 20th Century)
Academic Background
- MA Museum and Artefact Studies with Distinction, University of Durham.
Dissertation title – "I Feared that in My Haste, I Had Not Said Everything": Displaying the Chinese Diasporas in Britain
- BA (Hons) Archaeology with First Class Honours, University of Durham.
Dissertation title – Strings of the Lotus Root: A Study of Chinese Antiquities Collectors’ Networks from China to the West in the Late Qing-Republican Period (AD1839-AD1949)
Professional Memberships
- Hong Kong Archaeological Society
Lifetime member
- Oriental Ceramic Society
Student member