{"id":20,"date":"2025-07-10T15:29:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T14:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-salon\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:27:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T08:27:14","slug":"the-cabinet","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-salon\/the-cabinet\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cabinet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our cabinet was curated in summer 2025 by the project&#8217;s student partners. Each item in the cabinet was chosen for its relevance to opening up global narratives in 17th and 18th-century salon culture. Inside this authentic 1740s oak cabinet, you will find a sugar bowl and chinoiserie coffee cups, shells and tobacco pipes, pages from books, fragments of textiles that might once have been dresses or seat covers, and much more &#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read our <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1__Dv1x9qXbtMqhh3YqS4_1I1x7gqgJvI\/view?usp=sharing\"><strong>Student Salon catalogue<\/strong><\/a> to find out more about the cabinet and its contents, or check out some of our <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-salon\/\"><strong>blog posts<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Dutch Table Cabinet in Oak, c. 1740, 32 x 56 x 32 cm<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Early 17th-century silver spoon with a carved fish handle, 9.3 cm, weight 21.4g<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>18th-century chinoiserie, &#8216;waiting China-man pattern&#8217;, sugar bowl, c. 1760, Worcester origins, 12 x 6 cm <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Porcelain coffee cups and a tea cup (18th century)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pearl fishing original copper engraved print, Alain Mallet, &#8216;Description de l&#8217;Univers&#8217;, volume one, 1683, 10.2 x 14.3 cm<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>English map of Asia made by London cartographer John Senex, c. 1749, 20 x 15 cm<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>17th-century Dutch deft tile with ship, 11.5 x 12.7 cm<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>17th-century trade bead, 3.3 x 1 cm, weight 3.64 grams<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Blue milkweed beetle specimen in resin, native to North America, 4.4 x 2.8 cm<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Stellaria solaris\/sun carrier shell, 9 cm<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Money cowrie shells<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Engravings of cinnamon and pepper from John Gerard&#8217;s Herbal, 1597 (1633 edition)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fabric samples (18th century)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tobacco pipes, 17th and 18th century<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Paua (<em>Haliotis Iris<\/em>) shells from New Zealand, 21st century<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Harakeke (flax, <em>Phormium tenax<\/em>) seeds, 21st century<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our cabinet was curated in summer 2025 by the project&#8217;s student partners. Each item in the cabinet was chosen for its relevance to opening up global narratives in 17th and 18th-century salon culture. Inside this authentic 1740s oak cabinet, you will find a sugar bowl and chinoiserie coffee cups, shells and tobacco pipes, pages from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-salon\/the-cabinet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Cabinet<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":267,"featured_media":116,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-salon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-salon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-salon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-salon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/267"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-salon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-salon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-salon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.york.ac.uk\/student-salon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}