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Fig. 3.2.2.3 Blue-and-white ewer with Fig. 3.2.2.4 Blue-and-white ewer with Fig. 3.2.2.5 Kraak bowl with
in Ottoman Turkey. A Kinrande bowl of the Jiajing reign with overglaze iron red Figs. 3.2.2.2a and b Kinrande bowl with
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enamel and traces of gilt decoration on the exterior and underglaze cobalt blue on the English silver-gilt mounts
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province
interior is fitted with silver-gilt mounts made in c.1570 by the royal goldsmith Affabel Ming dynasty, Jiajing reign (1522–1566)
Partridge, which also transformed it into a tazza (Figs. 3.2.2.2a and b). This bowl, Mounts: Affabel Partridge (active c.1551–1580)
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Diameter: 13.3cm
now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, has royal associations. It is said to have
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
been a gift from King James II (r. 1685–1688) to his Groom of the Stairs, H. Green of (acc. no. 68.141.125a, b)
Rolleston Hall and descended in the latter’s family until purchased for the collection
of Sir Samuel Montague. The description of the mounted porcelain presented by
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Mr Lytchfelde to Elizabeth I in 1588, corresponds closely to the aforementioned 476 Pierson, 2004, p. 19.
I
477 mages of the bowl are published in Clare Le
Kinrande bowl. Corbeiller and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Chinese
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The earliest known pieces of blue-and-white porcelain with late sixteenth Export Porcelain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bulletin, vol. 60, no. 3 (Winter 2003), p. 7, fig. 2.
century English mounts were made at the Jingdezhen kilns during the Wanli reign 478 For a discussion on this wine cup, see Glanville, 1984,
p. 249; and Pierson, 2007, pp. 20–21, and note 21.
(Appendix 2). These include an octagonal ewer of not particularly high quality made 479 Collins, 1955, p. 592. Mentioned in Le Corbeiller and
after a Persian shape and decorated with panels enclosing boys playing on the globular Frelinghuysen, 2003, p. 7. Cited in Pomper, 2014,
p. 82.
body and flames on the spout, fitted with London silver-gilt mounts hallmarked to 480 Published in Glanville, 1984, pp. 250–251, fig. 6; and
Kerr, 2004, p. 51, pl. 4.9. As noted by Kerr, the repair
1585–1586, in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (Fig. 3.2.2.3). Flames, to some damage on the spout, lip and neckband
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a common Chinese motif used to decorate the spout of Wanli ewers, are also seen carried out in silver in the late seventeenth century
attests to the high appreciation that the owner had
on a blue-and-white ewer of Islamic shape fitted with silver-gilt mounts hallmarked for this ewer.
481 The porcelain lid of the ewer is a replacement, but
to 1589 found in Hardwick Hall, the house built by the Countess of Shrewsbury, the silver-gilt mounts indicate that it originally had
familiarly known as Bess of Hardwick, discussed in Chapter II (Fig. 3.2.2.4). This such a lid. According to Glanville, the mounts are by
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the same goldsmith who mounted the ‘Trenchard’
latter ewer relates closely in shape and decoration to two ewers in the Topkapi Saray bowl discussed earlier. The ewer may have been
bought by the Sixth Duke of Devonshire (1790-1858),
in Istanbul. Similar flame motifs are seen on the fragment of a spout excavated at who is documented as having had a passion for
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Santa Elena (present-day Parris Island, South Carolina), occupied by the Spanish from decorating the house in antiquarian style. Published
in Glanville, 1984, p. 253, fig. 9; and Pomper, Legg
1566 to 1587. and DePratter, 2011, p. 32. I am grateful to Jenny
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Liddle, National Trust Photo Library, for granting me
It is not surprising that Kraak porcelain too reached Tudor England at this time, permission to include an image of the ewer in this
doctoral dissertation.
as the Portuguese were importing considerable quantities into continental Europe 482 Published in Krahl and Ayers, Vol. II, 1986, p. 652,
by then. Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563–1612), who succeeded his father nos. 1007–1008.
483 Published in Pomper, Legg and DePratter, 2011, p.
William Cecil as Elizabeth I’s chief minister in 1598, acquired a few Kraak and high 40, fig. 15 (bottom image).
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English silver-gilt mounts, English silver-gilt mounts, English silver-gilt mounts
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province
Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620) Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620) Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620)
Mounts: English, hallmarked to 1585-1586 Mounts: English, hallmarked 1598 Mounts: English, c.1580-1600
Height: 25.6cm Height: 32 cm Diameter: 21.5cm
Victoria and Albert Museum, London Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire Height: 13.9cm; diam: 21.5cm
(museum no. 7915-1862) © National Trust Images (inv. no. 1127144) Burghley House, South Lincolnshire
484 Oliver Impey, The Cecil Family Collects: Four quality blue-and-white pieces of porcelain and fitted them with Elizabethan silver-gilt
Centuries of Decorative Art From Burghley House, mounts as early as 1580–1600. Some are still at Burghley House, a large manor
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exhibition catalogue, Art Services International,
Alexandria, Virginia, 1998, p. 60. Mentioned in house in South Lincolnshire, which belonged to William Cecil by inheritance. They
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Pierson, 2007, p. 24.
485 This magnificent Elizabethan home is still owned include a Wanli bowl with lobed sides alternately decorated with a bird perched on tree
by the Cecil family. There are also a number of
branches and flower sprays beneath a border of flying horses (Fig. 3.2.2.5). This bowl,
Kraak pieces with no mounts at Burghley House.
For images, see Gordon Lang, The Wrestling Boys. traditionally believed to have been a gift from Elizabeth I to her godchild Thomas
An exhibition of Chinese and Japanese ceramics
from the 16th to the 18th century in the collection Walsingham (1568–1630), a cousin of the Queen’s minister Sir Francis Walsingham,
at Burghley House, exhibition catalogue, Burghley is known as the ‘Walsingham’ bowl. In 1597, the English explorer Sir Walter Raleigh
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House, Eastbourne, 1983, p. 53, nos. 128–130, p.
55, no. 133, p. 57, nos. 137–138, and pp. 58–59, (c.1552–1618), who established a colony near Roanoke Island and named the area
nos. 140–142; and Alexandra Munroe and Naomi
Noble Richard (eds.), The Burghley Porcelains: An Virginia, bequeathed some porcelain to the Earl of Salisbury: ‘my Right Honorable
Exhibition from the Burghley House Collection and good Frinde Sir Roberte Cecil … one suite of Porcellane sett in silver and gylt’. As
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based on the 1688 Inventory and 1690 Devonshire
Schedule, New York, 1986, pp. 72–75, nos. 1 and 2. noted by Bracken, this bequest cannot have been fulfilled because Raleigh was prisoner
486 n 1731, Lady Osborne, granddaughter of Sir Thomas
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Walsingham, gave the bowl to the 8th Earl of Exeter, in the Tower at the time of the Earl of Salisbury’s premature death in 1612. According
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who was the only male heir of the family. Published to the historian Nicholson, by the time King James I (r. 1603–1625) ascended to the
in Lang, 1983, p. 51, no. 126; Munroe and Noble
Richard, 1986, pp. 80–81, no. 5; Glanville, 1984, p. English throne after Elizabeth I died unmarried in 1603, the Earl of Salisbury had at
249, fig. 4; Impey, 1998, p. 163, no. 67; and Vinhais
and Welsh, 2008/2, p. 279, fig. 50a. Theobalds, the palatial country house built by Lord Burghley in Hertfordshire, a
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487 Cited in Oliver R. Impey, ‘Collecting Oriental ‘cabinet of china gilt all over’. The pieces in the aforementioned cabinet and the
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Porcelain in Britain in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries’, in Munroe and Noble New Year’s gift received by the Earl of Salisbury in 1602-1603, consisting of ‘one basin
Richard, 1986, p. 36.
488 Bracken, 2001, p. 9. and ewer of fine purslen gilt’, may have been Kinrande porcelain or blue-and-white
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489 Malcolm Airs, ‘’Pomp or Glory: The Influence of with gilded decoration like those listed in the Spanish inventories discussed earlier. It
Theobalds’, in Pauline Croft (ed.), Patronage, Culture
and Power. The Early Cecils, Studies in British Art 8, seems that the Earl of Salisbury asked others to acquire high quality porcelain for him.
New Haven and London, 2002, pp. 3–19.
490 Adam Nicholson, God’s Secretaries: The Making of This is suggested by an extract from a correspondence dated March 1602–1603 sent
the King James Bible, New York, 2003, p. 18. Cited in by Richard Hawkins to him saying ‘I have a dozen porcelain dishes, the best that I
Pomper, 2014, p. 82.
491 On that occasion the Earl of Salisbury also received could find for you’.
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as gifts from ‘Mr. Coalle, of Devonshire, one basin
and ewer of fine ‘purslen,’ gilt. Six fair dishes of Four Wanli blue-and-white porcelain pieces fitted with Elizabethan silver-gilt
‘purslen,’ gilt. Six lesser, of fine ‘purslen,’ gilt. One mounts of c.1585 sold in 1888 from Burghley House, are now in the Metropolitan
perfuming pot in the form of a cat, of ‘purslen.’ One
fine voyder of China, gilt’. The citation is taken from Museum of Art in New York. Two of them are high quality pieces: a dish with
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G. Ravenscroft Dennis, The Cecil Family, Boston and
New York, 1914, p. 197. Bracken cited from Historical rounded sides decorated with a river scene within a white cavetto and a rim border of
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