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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
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

in Ottoman Turkey. A Kinrande bowl of the Jiajing reign with overglaze iron red Figs. 3.2.2.2a and b Kinrande bowl with 484 Oliver Impey, The Cecil Family Collects: Four quality blue-and-white pieces of porcelain and fitted them with Elizabethan silver-gilt
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enamel and traces of gilt decoration on the exterior and underglaze cobalt blue on the English silver-gilt mounts 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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Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province exhibition catalogue, Art Services International,
interior is fitted with silver-gilt mounts made in c.1570 by the royal goldsmith Affabel Ming dynasty, Jiajing reign (1522–1566) 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.
Partridge, which also transformed it into a tazza (Figs. 3.2.2.2a and b). This bowl, Mounts: Affabel Partridge (active c.1551–1580) 485 This magnificent Elizabethan home is still owned include a Wanli bowl with lobed sides alternately decorated with a bird perched on tree
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Diameter: 13.3cm by the Cecil family. There are also a number of
now in the Metropolitan Museum in New York, has royal associations. It is said to have branches and flower sprays beneath a border of flying horses (Fig. 3.2.2.5). This bowl,
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Kraak pieces with no mounts at Burghley House.
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) For images, see Gordon Lang, The Wrestling Boys. traditionally believed to have been a gift from Elizabeth I to her godchild Thomas
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Rolleston Hall and descended in the latter’s family until purchased for the collection from the 16th to the 18th century in the collection Walsingham (1568–1630), a cousin of the Queen’s minister Sir Francis Walsingham,
of Sir Samuel Montague. The description of the mounted porcelain presented by 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.
Mr Lytchfelde to Elizabeth I in 1588, corresponds closely to the aforementioned 476 Pierson, 2004, p. 19. 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
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477 mages of the bowl are published in Clare Le nos. 140–142; and Alexandra Munroe and Naomi
Kinrande bowl. Corbeiller and Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Chinese Noble Richard (eds.), The Burghley Porcelains: An Virginia, bequeathed some porcelain to the Earl of Salisbury: ‘my Right Honorable
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The earliest known pieces of blue-and-white porcelain with late sixteenth Export Porcelain, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 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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Bulletin, vol. 60, no. 3 (Winter 2003), p. 7, fig. 2.
based on the 1688 Inventory and 1690 Devonshire
century English mounts were made at the Jingdezhen kilns during the Wanli reign 478 For a discussion on this wine cup, see Glanville, 1984, Schedule, New York, 1986, pp. 72–75, nos. 1 and 2. noted by Bracken, this bequest cannot have been fulfilled because Raleigh was prisoner
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p. 249; and Pierson, 2007, pp. 20–21, and note 21. 486 n 1731, Lady Osborne, granddaughter of Sir Thomas
(Appendix 2). These include an octagonal ewer of not particularly high quality made 479 Collins, 1955, p. 592. Mentioned in Le Corbeiller and 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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after a Persian shape and decorated with panels enclosing boys playing on the globular Frelinghuysen, 2003, p. 7. Cited in Pomper, 2014, 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
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 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
Kerr, 2004, p. 51, pl. 4.9. As noted by Kerr, the repair 249, fig. 4; Impey, 1998, p. 163, no. 67; and Vinhais
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 and Welsh, 2008/2, p. 279, fig. 50a. Theobalds, the palatial country house built by Lord Burghley in Hertfordshire, a
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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 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
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. Eighteenth Centuries’, in Munroe and Noble New Year’s gift received by the Earl of Salisbury in 1602-1603, consisting of ‘one basin
481 The porcelain lid of the ewer is a replacement, but Richard, 1986, p. 36.
to 1589 found in Hardwick Hall, the house built by the Countess of Shrewsbury, the silver-gilt mounts indicate that it originally had 488 Bracken, 2001, p. 9. and ewer of fine purslen gilt’, may have been Kinrande porcelain or blue-and-white
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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 489 Malcolm Airs, ‘’Pomp or Glory: The Influence of with gilded decoration like those listed in the Spanish inventories discussed earlier. It
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Theobalds’, in Pauline Croft (ed.), Patronage, Culture
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 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.
bought by the Sixth Duke of Devonshire (1790-1858), New Haven and London, 2002, pp. 3–19.
in Istanbul. Similar flame motifs are seen on the fragment of a spout excavated at who is documented as having had a passion for 490 Adam Nicholson, God’s Secretaries: The Making of This is suggested by an extract from a correspondence dated March 1602–1603 sent
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Santa Elena (present-day Parris Island, South Carolina), occupied by the Spanish from decorating the house in antiquarian style. Published 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
in Glanville, 1984, p. 253, fig. 9; and Pomper, Legg
Pomper, 2014, p. 82.
1566 to 1587. and DePratter, 2011, p. 32. I am grateful to Jenny 491 On that occasion the Earl of Salisbury also received could find for you’.
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Liddle, National Trust Photo Library, for granting me as gifts from ‘Mr. Coalle, of Devonshire, one basin
It is not surprising that Kraak porcelain too reached Tudor England at this time, permission to include an image of the ewer in this and ewer of fine ‘purslen,’ gilt. Six fair dishes of Four Wanli blue-and-white porcelain pieces fitted with Elizabethan silver-gilt
doctoral dissertation.
as the Portuguese were importing considerable quantities into continental Europe 482 Published in Krahl and Ayers, Vol. II, 1986, p. 652, ‘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
by then. Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury (1563–1612), who succeeded his father nos. 1007–1008. 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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483 Published in Pomper, Legg and DePratter, 2011, p. G. Ravenscroft Dennis, The Cecil Family, Boston and
William Cecil as Elizabeth I’s chief minister in 1598, acquired a few Kraak and high 40, fig. 15 (bottom image). 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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