Preservation Society Research Fellows Astrid Tvetenstrand and Dani Zhang shared results of their research in a two-part presentation during the Eaddo and Peter Kiernan Lecture at Marble House on August 1, 2023. Tvetenstrand's “Kingscote: A Global Experience,” examined the house’s history from an international perspective drawing on diaries, letters, probate and property records, newspapers, book collections and objects in Kingscote for insight. Zhang’s theme, “Storytelling Objects,” reflected how her knowledge of East Asian languages and cultures has helped her decode the imagery of many Chinese-made and chinoiserie objects in our collections, including an early 19th-century Chinese porcelain garden stool from Chateau-sur-Mer painted with scenes from a classic Chinese love story, “The Romance of the Western Chamber.”