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Figs. 3.2.2.6a and b Blue-and-white dish with
English silver-gilt mounts
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province
Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620)
Mounts: English, c.1585
Diameter: 36.5cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(acc. no. 44.14.1)

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Fig. 3.2.2.7 Blue-and-white bowl with
English silver-gilt mounts
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province
Ming dynasty, Wanli reign mark and
of the period (1573–1620)
Mounts: English (London), c.1585
Diameter: 22.9cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(acc. no. 44.14.3)

Fig. 3.2.2.8 Kraak bottle with
English silver-gilt mounts
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province
Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620)
Mounts: English (London), c.1585
Height: 34.6cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(acc. no. 44.14.2)

Fig. 3.2.2.9 Kraak bowl with
English silver-gilt mounts
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province
Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620)
Mounts: English (London), c.1585 herons and lotus (Figs. 3.2.2.6a and b), and a bowl decorated with phoenixes flying
Diameter: 24.1cm amongst floral sprays (Fig. 3.2.2.7). The other two pieces are Kraak porcelain of not
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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(acc. no. 44.14.5) especially high quality. One is a bottle with moulded vertical panels decorated with
birds perched on flowering or fruiting tree branches, transformed into an ewer with
the mounts (Fig. 3.2.2.8), and the other is a bowl decorated with panels of white
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Manuscripts Commission, Salisbury, Vol. XII, p. 527.
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Cited in Bracken, 2001, p. 9. spotted deer reserved on blue foliage and wheel motifs (Fig. 3.2.2.9).
492 Historical Manuscripts Commission, Salisbury, The Metropolitan Museum has another piece of Kraak porcelain with English
Vol. XII, p. 697. Cited in Bracken, 2001, p. 9.
493 The Metropolitan Museum of Art records the mounts of c.1585. It is a bowl decorated with panels of scrolling foliage and auspicious
provenance of these pieces as follows: William Cecil,
Lord Burghley; Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter; symbols divided by double lines on the exterior, and a chakra or flaming wheel border
William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Exeter; William encircling the interior medallion, which has the same dimensions and rim border of
Agnew until 1888 (sold at auction Christie’s London,
June 7–8, 1888, lots 256–259); J. Pierpont Morgan; horses above waves as the Walsingham bowl (Figs. 3.2.2.10a and b). This bowl was
and J. P. Morgan Jr.
494 This bowl bears a six-character Wanli reign mark probably made for the export market in the late 1570s, as suggested by the resemblance
within a double ring on its recessed base. of the scrolling foliage decoration to that seen on a bowl fragment recovered from the
495 A bottle of this shape with a related decoration
found in the Topkapi Saray, inv. no. TKS 15/7804, Spanish shipwreck San Felipe (1576). In addition, the Metropolitan Museum has
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indicates that such bottles were also exported to
the Middle East. Published in Krahl and Ayers, Vol. a Kinrande bowl with blue glaze and gilt decoration on the exterior and underglaze
II, 1986, p. 748, no. 1377. cobalt blue on the interior of the Jiajing reign, fitted with English silver-gilt mounts of
496 These four pieces of porcelain and their mounts are
discussed and illustrated in Louise Avery, ‘Chinese c.1590–1610 (Fig. 3.2.2.11).
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Porcelain in English Mounts’, The Metropolitan
Museum of Art Bulletin 2 (9), 1944, pp. 269–271. A Kraak rectangular box of the Wanli reign from the Lee Collection housed
497 For a sketch-drawing of the bowl, see Von der at the Royal Ontario Museum is fitted with English silver-gilt mounts dating to
Porten, 2012, p. 4, IV–1.
498 The bowl bears the mark wan fu you tong (may c.1570–1580, which relate in workmanship and style to those fitted to the porcelain
happiness without end favour your affairs) on the
recessed base. Images of the interior and exterior pieces formerly owned by Lord Burghley at the Metropolitan Museum discussed
of this bowl are published in Pomper, 2014, p. 79, above (Fig. 3.2.2.12). This box is comparable to the examples recovered from the
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fig. 10.
499 The mounts transformed the box into a hinged Spanish shipwreck San Diego (1600). Two further pieces of Kraak porcelain dating
casket with a classical figure surmounting the lid
resting on four large ball feet. Yvonee Hackenbroch, to the Wanli reign fitted with English silver-gilt mounts of the late sixteenth or early

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