2024

Pearce, N. (2024) Collecting patterns for Chinese art: 1600-1935. In: Robertson, I., Chong, D. and Afonso, L. U. (eds.) Global Art Markets: History and Current Trends. Series: Routledge research into the creative and cultural industries. Routledge: Abindon, pp. 53-64. ISBN 9781032510453 (In Press)

2023

Pearce, N. (2023) Private passion, public benefit: Brenda Zara Seligman and the Seligman Collection of Chinese Art. In: Lu, L.-e. and Peyton, A. B. (eds.) Women across Asian Art: Selected Essays in Art and Material Culture. Series: David A. Cofrin Asian art manuscript series. University of Florida Press, pp. 155-180. ISBN 9781683403586

Pearce, N. (2023) John Thomson's China: 1868-1872. In: Yao, B. and Chakrabongse, N. (eds.) Siam and China Through the Lens of John Thomson. River Books: Bangkok, pp. 85-91. ISBN 9786164510692

2021

Pearce, N. (2021) Beyond the 'Ten Complete Military Victories': Images of battle in the late-Qing period. In: Potter, M. C. (ed.) Representing the Past in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century: Historicism, Postmodernism and Internationalism. Series: Routledge research in art history. Routledge: New York and London, pp. 164-179. ISBN 9781138544352 (doi: 10.4324/9781351004183-8)

Pearce, N. (2021) "Twice as valuable as that of Eumorphopulos and twice as famous..." (Vita Sackville-West, All Passion Spent, 1931) - The real and imaginary world of the Chinese art collector. Journal for Art Market Studies, 5(1), (doi: 10.23690/jams.v5i1.107)

Pearce, N. (2021) 'I shall set at once about the work': some agents in China. In: Turpin, A. and Bracken, S. (eds.) Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting Strategies in Europe and the United States, 1550-1950. Series: Contextualizing art markets. Bloomsbury Visual Arts: New York, pp. 241-251. ISBN 9781501348877 (doi: 10.5040/9781501348907.0029)

2020

Hofmann, A., Howald, C. and Pearce, N. (Eds.) (2020) Journal for Art Market Studies [Edited issue]. Forum Kunst und Markt.

Pearce, N. (2020) A Nestorian misadventure: Frits Holm and the Chinese Nestorian Stele. Journal for Art Market Studies, 4(2), pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.23690/jams.v4i2.126)

Pearce, N. (2020) From the Summer Palace 1860: Provenance and Politics. In: Tythacott, L. (ed.) Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France. Series: The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950. Routledge. ISBN 9780367432782

Pearce, N. (2020) New viewpoints, new knowledge: John Dudgeon, John Thomson and photographic practice in nineteenth-century China. In: Studies in Photography: Proceedings of the National Trust for Scotland Symposium: The Camera, Colonialism and Social Networks. Scottish Society for the History of Photography/NTS, pp. 38-49.

2019

Milosch, J. and Pearce, N. (Eds.) (2019) Collecting and Provenance: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Rowman and Littlefield: Lanham, MD. ISBN 9781538127568

2018

Pearce, N. (2018) From the Summer Palace 1860: provenance and politics. In: Tythacott, L. (ed.) Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France. Series: The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950. Routledge, pp. 38-50. ISBN 9781138080553

2017

Pearce, N. (2017) Qianlong’s Western Campaign engravings. In: Knothe, F. (ed.) Imagining Qianlong, Louis XV’s Chinese Emperor Tapestries and Battle Scene Prints at the Imperial court in Beijing. University Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong, pp. 41-54. ISBN 9789881902498

2015

Hancock, E. G., Pearce, N. and Campbell, M. (Eds.) (2015) William Hunter's World: The Art and Science of Eighteenth-Century Collecting. Series: The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700–1950. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey. ISBN 9781409447740

Pearce, N. (2015) 'At last in Dr Hunter's library': William Hunter's Chinese collections. In: Pearce, N., Hancock, E. G. and Campbell, M. (eds.) William Hunter's World. The Art and Science of Eighteenth-Century Collecting. Series: The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950. Ashgate, pp. 263-281. ISBN 9781409447740

Pearce, N. (2015) China. In: MacGregor, A. (ed.) The Cobbe Cabinet of Curiosities: An Anglo-Irish Country House Museum. Series: Paul Mellon centre for studies in British art. Yale University Press and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art: New Haven, pp. 348-373. ISBN 9780300204353

2014

Pearce, N. (2014) From relic to relic: a brief history of the skull of Confucius. Journal of the History of Collections, 26(2), pp. 207-222. (doi: 10.1093/jhc/fht032)

Pearce, N. (2014) 'CARP-ON': Further thoughts on Chinese art provenance research. In: Steuber, J. and Lai, G. (eds.) Collectors, Collections and Collecting the Arts of China: Histories and Challenges. University Press of Florida, pp. 295-312. ISBN 9780813049144

2013

Pearce, N. (2013) A casualty of war: Laurence Binyon, Raphael Petrucci and Chinese painting. In: Sandrock, K. and Wright, O. (eds.) Locating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions. Series: Internationale forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden literaturwissenschaft. Rodopi: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789042036352

Han, J., Quye, A. , Chung, Y. and Pearce, N. (2013) Dyes and Dyeing in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368-1820?) in China: Preliminary Evidence Based on Primary Chinese Sources. In: 32nd Annual meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology, La Rochelle, France, 2-5 Oct 2013,

Pearce, N. (2013) 'Directness, quaintness and squalor'. Aspects of translation and transformation in Franco Leoni's Opera L'Oracolo. In: Yarrington, A., Villani, S. and Kelly, J. (eds.) Travels and Translations: Anglo-Italian Cultural Transactions. Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 167. Rodopi: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 337-352. ISBN 9789042037670

2012

Pearce, N. and Steuber, J. (Eds.) (2012) Original Intentions: Essays on Production, Reproduction and Interpretation in the Arts of China. University Press of Florida. ISBN 9780813039725

Pearce, N. (2012) A flash in the pan: the 'Bushell Bowl' controversy revisited. In: Pearce, N. and Steuber, J. (eds.) Original Intentions: Essays on Production, Reproduction and Interpretation in the Arts of China. University Press of Florida: Gainesville, FL, pp. 6-37. ISBN 9780813039725

2011

Pearce, N. (2011) In a perfect world: Jade landscape carvings. Orientations, 42(6), pp. 64-70.

Pearce, N. (2011) A novel experiment: John Thomson's Illustrations of China and its People and the beginnings of photographic publishing. National Palace Museum Bulletin, 44, pp. 49-65.

Pearce, N. (2011) Mapping the world: a copy of Verbiest's Kunyu Quantu in Glasgow University's collection. In: Van Overmeire, D. and Ackerman, P. (eds.) About Books, Maps, Songs and Steles: The Wording and Teaching of the Christian Faith in China. Series: Leuven Chinese studies (21). Ferdinand Verbiest Institute: Leuven, Belgium, pp. 51-78. ISBN 9789081436540

Pearce, N. (2011) Shanghai 1908: A.W. Bahr and China’s first art exhibition. West 86th, 18(1), pp. 2-25. (doi: 10.1086/659382)

2010

Pearce, N. (2010) John Thomson's China: 1868-1872. In: China: Through the Lens of John Thomson, 1868-1872. River Books: Bangkok, pp. 6-9. ISBN 9786167339009

2009

Creasy, H., Metcalf, H. and Pearce, N. (2009) History and conservation of Kunyu Quantu (A map of the whole world) by Ferdinand Verbiest, 1674. In: Colbourne, J. and Snyder, R.F. (eds.) Printed on Paper: The Techniques, History, and Conservation of Printed Media. Arts and Social Sciences Academic Press, Northumbria University: Newcastle, UK, pp. 33-41. ISBN 9780956120632

Pearce, N. (2009) Gorer v Lever: Edgar Gorer and William Hesketh Lever. On-Line Catalogue of the Chinese Works of Art in the Lady Lever Art Gallery,

2008

Pearce, N. (2008) More sight than sound: extra-musical qualities of the Qin. Orientations, 39, pp. 40-46.

Pearce, N. (2008) Chinese export porcelain to europe: some aspects of design and consumption. University of Hong Kong Museum Journal, 2,

2007

Pearce, N. (2007) A life in Peking: the Peabody albums. History of Photography, 31(3), pp. 276-293.

2005

Pearce, N. (2005) Collecting, connoisseurship and commerce: an examination of the life and career of Stephen Wootton Bushell (1844-1908). Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 70, pp. 17-25.

Pearce, N. (2005) Photographs of Peking, China 1861-1908 : an inventory and description of the Yetts collection at the University of Durham ; Through Peking with a camera. Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston, NY. ISBN 077346090X

Pearce, N. and Beat, J. (2005) Themes and variations: A discussion of some parallels between Western music and Chinese scroll painting. In: Notis musycall: Essays on Music and Scottish Culture in Honour of Kenneth Elliott. Musica Scotica: Glasgow, pp. 317-330.

2003

Pearce, N. (2003) Images of Guanxiu's Sixteen Luohan in 18th Century China. Apollo, 158(501), pp. 25-31.

2001

Pearce, N. (2001) Soldiers, doctors, engineers: Chinese art and British collecting, 1860-1935. Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, 6, pp. 45-52.

2000

Pearce, N. (2000) In a Space of Time Past: Victor Segalen’s: ‘The Great Statuary of China’. In: Forsdick, C. and Marsden, S. (eds.) Reading Diversity. University of Glasgow French and German Publications: Glasgow, pp. 67-88. ISBN 0852616597

1996

Pearce, N. and Wilkinson, J. (1996) Harmony and Contrast: A Journey Through East Asian Art. National Museums of Scotland: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780700704613

1991

Pearce, N. (1991) The rise of the Mingei movement. In: Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Mingei - The Living Tradition in Japanese Arts. Kodansha International: Tokyo, pp. 19-24. ISBN 4770015828

1987

Pearce, N. (1987) Ceramics made to special order. In: Clunas, C. (ed.) Chinese Export Art a Design. Victoria & Albert Museum: London, pp. 58-79. ISBN I851770003

Articles

Pearce, N. (2021) "Twice as valuable as that of Eumorphopulos and twice as famous..." (Vita Sackville-West, All Passion Spent, 1931) - The real and imaginary world of the Chinese art collector. Journal for Art Market Studies, 5(1), (doi: 10.23690/jams.v5i1.107)

Pearce, N. (2020) A Nestorian misadventure: Frits Holm and the Chinese Nestorian Stele. Journal for Art Market Studies, 4(2), pp. 1-15. (doi: 10.23690/jams.v4i2.126)

Pearce, N. (2014) From relic to relic: a brief history of the skull of Confucius. Journal of the History of Collections, 26(2), pp. 207-222. (doi: 10.1093/jhc/fht032)

Pearce, N. (2011) In a perfect world: Jade landscape carvings. Orientations, 42(6), pp. 64-70.

Pearce, N. (2011) A novel experiment: John Thomson's Illustrations of China and its People and the beginnings of photographic publishing. National Palace Museum Bulletin, 44, pp. 49-65.

Pearce, N. (2011) Shanghai 1908: A.W. Bahr and China’s first art exhibition. West 86th, 18(1), pp. 2-25. (doi: 10.1086/659382)

Pearce, N. (2009) Gorer v Lever: Edgar Gorer and William Hesketh Lever. On-Line Catalogue of the Chinese Works of Art in the Lady Lever Art Gallery,

Pearce, N. (2008) More sight than sound: extra-musical qualities of the Qin. Orientations, 39, pp. 40-46.

Pearce, N. (2008) Chinese export porcelain to europe: some aspects of design and consumption. University of Hong Kong Museum Journal, 2,

Pearce, N. (2007) A life in Peking: the Peabody albums. History of Photography, 31(3), pp. 276-293.

Pearce, N. (2005) Collecting, connoisseurship and commerce: an examination of the life and career of Stephen Wootton Bushell (1844-1908). Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, 70, pp. 17-25.

Pearce, N. (2003) Images of Guanxiu's Sixteen Luohan in 18th Century China. Apollo, 158(501), pp. 25-31.

Pearce, N. (2001) Soldiers, doctors, engineers: Chinese art and British collecting, 1860-1935. Journal of the Scottish Society for Art History, 6, pp. 45-52.

Books

Pearce, N. (2005) Photographs of Peking, China 1861-1908 : an inventory and description of the Yetts collection at the University of Durham ; Through Peking with a camera. Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston, NY. ISBN 077346090X

Pearce, N. and Wilkinson, J. (1996) Harmony and Contrast: A Journey Through East Asian Art. National Museums of Scotland: Edinburgh. ISBN 9780700704613

Book Sections

Pearce, N. (2024) Collecting patterns for Chinese art: 1600-1935. In: Robertson, I., Chong, D. and Afonso, L. U. (eds.) Global Art Markets: History and Current Trends. Series: Routledge research into the creative and cultural industries. Routledge: Abindon, pp. 53-64. ISBN 9781032510453 (In Press)

Pearce, N. (2023) Private passion, public benefit: Brenda Zara Seligman and the Seligman Collection of Chinese Art. In: Lu, L.-e. and Peyton, A. B. (eds.) Women across Asian Art: Selected Essays in Art and Material Culture. Series: David A. Cofrin Asian art manuscript series. University of Florida Press, pp. 155-180. ISBN 9781683403586

Pearce, N. (2023) John Thomson's China: 1868-1872. In: Yao, B. and Chakrabongse, N. (eds.) Siam and China Through the Lens of John Thomson. River Books: Bangkok, pp. 85-91. ISBN 9786164510692

Pearce, N. (2021) Beyond the 'Ten Complete Military Victories': Images of battle in the late-Qing period. In: Potter, M. C. (ed.) Representing the Past in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century: Historicism, Postmodernism and Internationalism. Series: Routledge research in art history. Routledge: New York and London, pp. 164-179. ISBN 9781138544352 (doi: 10.4324/9781351004183-8)

Pearce, N. (2021) 'I shall set at once about the work': some agents in China. In: Turpin, A. and Bracken, S. (eds.) Art Markets, Agents and Collectors: Collecting Strategies in Europe and the United States, 1550-1950. Series: Contextualizing art markets. Bloomsbury Visual Arts: New York, pp. 241-251. ISBN 9781501348877 (doi: 10.5040/9781501348907.0029)

Pearce, N. (2020) From the Summer Palace 1860: Provenance and Politics. In: Tythacott, L. (ed.) Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France. Series: The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950. Routledge. ISBN 9780367432782

Pearce, N. (2020) New viewpoints, new knowledge: John Dudgeon, John Thomson and photographic practice in nineteenth-century China. In: Studies in Photography: Proceedings of the National Trust for Scotland Symposium: The Camera, Colonialism and Social Networks. Scottish Society for the History of Photography/NTS, pp. 38-49.

Pearce, N. (2018) From the Summer Palace 1860: provenance and politics. In: Tythacott, L. (ed.) Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France. Series: The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950. Routledge, pp. 38-50. ISBN 9781138080553

Pearce, N. (2017) Qianlong’s Western Campaign engravings. In: Knothe, F. (ed.) Imagining Qianlong, Louis XV’s Chinese Emperor Tapestries and Battle Scene Prints at the Imperial court in Beijing. University Museum and Art Gallery, University of Hong Kong, pp. 41-54. ISBN 9789881902498

Pearce, N. (2015) 'At last in Dr Hunter's library': William Hunter's Chinese collections. In: Pearce, N., Hancock, E. G. and Campbell, M. (eds.) William Hunter's World. The Art and Science of Eighteenth-Century Collecting. Series: The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700-1950. Ashgate, pp. 263-281. ISBN 9781409447740

Pearce, N. (2015) China. In: MacGregor, A. (ed.) The Cobbe Cabinet of Curiosities: An Anglo-Irish Country House Museum. Series: Paul Mellon centre for studies in British art. Yale University Press and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art: New Haven, pp. 348-373. ISBN 9780300204353

Pearce, N. (2014) 'CARP-ON': Further thoughts on Chinese art provenance research. In: Steuber, J. and Lai, G. (eds.) Collectors, Collections and Collecting the Arts of China: Histories and Challenges. University Press of Florida, pp. 295-312. ISBN 9780813049144

Pearce, N. (2013) A casualty of war: Laurence Binyon, Raphael Petrucci and Chinese painting. In: Sandrock, K. and Wright, O. (eds.) Locating Italy: East and West in British-Italian Transactions. Series: Internationale forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden literaturwissenschaft. Rodopi: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 9789042036352

Pearce, N. (2013) 'Directness, quaintness and squalor'. Aspects of translation and transformation in Franco Leoni's Opera L'Oracolo. In: Yarrington, A., Villani, S. and Kelly, J. (eds.) Travels and Translations: Anglo-Italian Cultural Transactions. Series: Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 167. Rodopi: Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 337-352. ISBN 9789042037670

Pearce, N. (2012) A flash in the pan: the 'Bushell Bowl' controversy revisited. In: Pearce, N. and Steuber, J. (eds.) Original Intentions: Essays on Production, Reproduction and Interpretation in the Arts of China. University Press of Florida: Gainesville, FL, pp. 6-37. ISBN 9780813039725

Pearce, N. (2011) Mapping the world: a copy of Verbiest's Kunyu Quantu in Glasgow University's collection. In: Van Overmeire, D. and Ackerman, P. (eds.) About Books, Maps, Songs and Steles: The Wording and Teaching of the Christian Faith in China. Series: Leuven Chinese studies (21). Ferdinand Verbiest Institute: Leuven, Belgium, pp. 51-78. ISBN 9789081436540

Pearce, N. (2010) John Thomson's China: 1868-1872. In: China: Through the Lens of John Thomson, 1868-1872. River Books: Bangkok, pp. 6-9. ISBN 9786167339009

Creasy, H., Metcalf, H. and Pearce, N. (2009) History and conservation of Kunyu Quantu (A map of the whole world) by Ferdinand Verbiest, 1674. In: Colbourne, J. and Snyder, R.F. (eds.) Printed on Paper: The Techniques, History, and Conservation of Printed Media. Arts and Social Sciences Academic Press, Northumbria University: Newcastle, UK, pp. 33-41. ISBN 9780956120632

Pearce, N. and Beat, J. (2005) Themes and variations: A discussion of some parallels between Western music and Chinese scroll painting. In: Notis musycall: Essays on Music and Scottish Culture in Honour of Kenneth Elliott. Musica Scotica: Glasgow, pp. 317-330.

Pearce, N. (2000) In a Space of Time Past: Victor Segalen’s: ‘The Great Statuary of China’. In: Forsdick, C. and Marsden, S. (eds.) Reading Diversity. University of Glasgow French and German Publications: Glasgow, pp. 67-88. ISBN 0852616597

Pearce, N. (1991) The rise of the Mingei movement. In: Japan Folk Crafts Museum, Mingei - The Living Tradition in Japanese Arts. Kodansha International: Tokyo, pp. 19-24. ISBN 4770015828

Pearce, N. (1987) Ceramics made to special order. In: Clunas, C. (ed.) Chinese Export Art a Design. Victoria & Albert Museum: London, pp. 58-79. ISBN I851770003

Edited Books

Hofmann, A., Howald, C. and Pearce, N. (Eds.) (2020) Journal for Art Market Studies [Edited issue]. Forum Kunst und Markt.

Milosch, J. and Pearce, N. (Eds.) (2019) Collecting and Provenance: A Multidisciplinary Approach. Rowman and Littlefield: Lanham, MD. ISBN 9781538127568

Hancock, E. G., Pearce, N. and Campbell, M. (Eds.) (2015) William Hunter's World: The Art and Science of Eighteenth-Century Collecting. Series: The histories of material culture and collecting, 1700–1950. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey. ISBN 9781409447740

Pearce, N. and Steuber, J. (Eds.) (2012) Original Intentions: Essays on Production, Reproduction and Interpretation in the Arts of China. University Press of Florida. ISBN 9780813039725

Conference Proceedings

Han, J., Quye, A. , Chung, Y. and Pearce, N. (2013) Dyes and Dyeing in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368-1820?) in China: Preliminary Evidence Based on Primary Chinese Sources. In: 32nd Annual meeting of Dyes in History and Archaeology, La Rochelle, France, 2-5 Oct 2013,