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[vorl] The creative reuse of ‘made-in-China’ materials has a long history in art and design. When potters in China made plates and bowls, they have not known that they would be reused to decorate European palaces. This volume understands ‘recycling’ as a range of creative practices, including the upcycling of manmade materials, or the appropriation of architectural fragments and industrially produced items.

The volume examines the mutually constitutive relationship between the materiality of objects and their aesthetic meanings. These studies of transcultural objects can suggest pathways for museum experts by uncovering the multi-layered identities and temporalities of objects that can no longer be labelled as located in single regions.

During the early modern period, objects of maritime material culture were removed from their places of origin and traded, collected and displayed worldwide. Focusing on shells and pearls exchanged within local and global networks, this monograph compares and connects Asian, in particular Chinese, and European practices of oceanic exploitation in the framework of a transcultural history of art with an understanding of maritime material culture as gendered. Perceiving the ocean as mother of all things, as womb and birthplace, Chinese and European artists and collectors exoticized and eroticized...