The Rough, the Smooth, and the White in ca. 1600 Hizen: The Rhetoric of Porcelain

This talk focuses upon the difficulties of using written documentation alone and instead acknowledges the histories of materials and the agency of local producers within a regional network. By focusing upon the actual ceramic objects, one can counter the difficulties of translation relying solely on language and begin to focus upon the transformative editing embodied in locally produced objects.

Edward S. Cooke, Jr., the Charles F. Montgomery Professor of American Decorative Arts in the Department of the History of Art at Yale University, focuses upon material culture and decorative arts, especially from the 16^th century to the present. His books include Making Furniture in Pre-industrial America: The Social Economy of Newtown and Woodbury, Connecticut (Johns Hopkins Press, 1996), Inventing Boston: Design, Production and Consumption in the Atlantic World, 1680–1720 (Yale University Press, 2019), and Global Objects: Toward a Connected Art History (Princeton University Press, 2022). At Yale, Cooke teaches lecture courses on American material culture from the fifteenth century to the present as well as an introductory course on global decorative arts and offers seminars on a variety of topics including material culture theory, embodied artisanal knowledge, the American interior, American furniture, and modern craft.

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Scientific Organization: Anna Dumont & Lara Demori

_{Image: Tea leaf storage jar (named “Chigusa”), Guandong, 13th-14th century; wheelthrown stoneware with iron oxide and wood ash glaze. Cover: China, 15th century; gold brocaded red silk in Tomita Kinran pattern. Freer Gallery, F2016.20.1}