Papers by Helena Heroldova
Journal of the History of Collections, 2013
Muzeum Muzejní a vlastivedná práce
This case study deals with the confiscated property from China belonging to the Junowicz family i... more This case study deals with the confiscated property from China belonging to the Junowicz family in Teplice in 1946. Roman Junowicz was a naval officer who served in China during the Boxer Uprising of 1899–1901. The first part is dealing with confiscated property history and with the Junowicz family.
Grada Publishing a.s., 2016
Annals of the Náprstek Museum, 2020
Embroidered bands on the edges of the sleeves of women’s garments were fashionable in China durin... more Embroidered bands on the edges of the sleeves of women’s garments were fashionable in China during the late 19th century. They adorned Manchu and Han ladies’ garments with colourful landscapes, flowers and birds, figural scenes and auspicious symbols that expressed wishes for long life, many male offspring, and an advance in social position.
Annals of the Náprstek Museum, 2019
Court beads worn with formal dress represented one of the symbols of social standing of the Qing ... more Court beads worn with formal dress represented one of the symbols of social standing of the Qing dynasty aristocracy and officialdom. The appearance of court beads and material used for their production were prescribed in the 18th century encyclopaedic work The Illustrated Regulations for Ceremonial Paraphernalia of the Imperial Court. Nowadays, court beads are found in antiquities markets and in museum collections. The Náprstek Museum in Prague also keeps a small collection distinguished from the several tens of pieces of Qing dynasty formal dress, dress accessories, and other signs of social rank, the number of these items are surprisingly few. In order to answer the question about the scarcity of the objects, the origin of the collection has been studied.
Annals of the Náprstek Museum, 2016
Dragon robes were worn by scholar – officials who were members of bureacracy of the Qing dynasty ... more Dragon robes were worn by scholar – officials who were members of bureacracy of the Qing dynasty in China (1644–1911). The cut and design of the robes were uniform, but the embellishment and motifs including religious symbols were individual and personal. Dragon robes as a garment with high homogeneity and visibility is compared to the “organisational dress” worn by members of contemporary Western organisations. The meaning of both garments is found to be similar, especially as they convey social roles within the organisation and society.
Annals of the Náprstek Museum, 2018
The Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures acquired two hundred items from Tibet... more The Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures acquired two hundred items from Tibet in the 1950s: bronze sculptures, paintings and ritual implements. These items came from private collections confiscated after the Second War World according to the presidential decrees dealing with the post-war state reconstruction. Although the administration of the confiscated properties was meticulous, the transfer of items to the Náprstek Museum interrupted the history of ownership and meant the loss of the historical knowledge of its origin. As the result, the Tibet collection in the Náprstek Museum reveals more about the political and social history of post-war Czechoslovakia than about the perception of Tibetan culture in Czechoslovakia during the first half of the 20th century.
Annals of the Náprstek Museum, 2018
The Czech traveller and photographer Enrique Stanko Vráz (1860–1932) spent three spring months in... more The Czech traveller and photographer Enrique Stanko Vráz (1860–1932) spent three spring months in China during the Boxer Uprising in 1901. He was amongst the first travellers – photo-reporters. He preferred realistic photographs as the best proof of capturing the world around him. In Beijing, he took several hundred photographs including the Manchu aristocratic families. Among them, he photographed Prince Su (1866–1922), an important late Qing statesman, and his family. The study discusses Prince Su’s family photographs in relations to Vráz’s notes and travel books.
Annals of the Náprstek Museum, Jun 1, 2019
Spectacles from China appear in many museum collections, and they are popular collectibles in pri... more Spectacles from China appear in many museum collections, and they are popular collectibles in private collections. The collection of ten spectacles and their cases in the Náprstek Museum in Prague shows its technological and material development from the pince-nez type in the second half of the 19 th century to early 20 th century tortoiseshell and plastic spectacles. As signs of learning, these different types of spectacles and their cases show their social context and meaning in Chinese society during the transition period from the traditional to the modern era.
Annals of the Náprstek Museum, 2017
The study focuses on the methodology of research on recycled clothing. Two Chinese Dragon Robes f... more The study focuses on the methodology of research on recycled clothing. Two Chinese Dragon Robes from the collection of the Náprstek Museum were remade as a men’s jacket and a woman’s evening dress. Both examples are described, analysed and interpreted from two points of view: as authentic Dragon Robes in its original Imperial China setting, as well as newly made clothes in the context of the early 20thcentury Western culture.
Dragon robes were worn by scholar – officials who were members of bureacracy of the Qing dynasty ... more Dragon robes were worn by scholar – officials who were members of bureacracy of the Qing dynasty in China (1644–1911). The cut and design of the robes were uniform, but the embellishment and motifs including religious symbols were individual and personal. Dragon robes as a garment with high homogeneity and visibility is compared to the " organisational dress " worn by members of contemporary Western organisations. The meaning of both garments is found to be similar, especially as they convey social roles within the organisation and society. KEY WORDS: China – Qing dynasty – dragon robes – anthropology of dress Dragon robes are common examples of Chinese clothing in many museums with Chinese collections. From the second half of the 19 th century, dragon robes were given as gifts to notable foreigners by Qing dynasty authorities, while later they were even sold, and many visitors to China brought them back home as souvenirs. After the fall of the Qing Empire in 1911, dragon ...
China Review International, 2000
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