Introduction: the material of visual cultures / John Potvin and Alla Myzelev
Porcelain bodies: acquisitiveness, gender, and taste in eighteenth-century England / Stacey Sloboda
Home crafted objects as culture and comfort / Clive Edwards
Spatializing the private collection: John Fiott Lee and Hartwell House / Anastasia Filippoupoliti
'Everyone to his taste' or 'truth to material': the role of materials in collections of applied art / Nadine Rottau
Collecting/painting harem/clothing / Joan DelPlato
'Chinamania': collecting Old Blue for the House Beautiful, c. 1860-1900 / Anne Anderson
From specimen to scrap: Japanese textiles in the British Victorian interior, 1875-1900
Indian crafts and imperial policy: hybridity, purification, and imperial subjectivities / Julie F. Codell
Collecting peasant Europe: peasant utilitarian objects as museum artifacts / Alla Myzelev
Collecting intimacy one object at a time: material culture, perception, and the spaces of aesthetic companionship / John Potvin
Collecting the sublime and the beautiful: from Romanticism to revolution in Celtic Revival jewelry / Joseph McBrinn.
