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Fig. 3.2.2.13 Kraak kendi with English
silver-gilt mounts
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province
Fig. 3.2.2.11 Kinrande bowl with English Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620), c.1600
silver-gilt mounts Mounts: English, c.1600–1610
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province Height: 24.1cm; length: 21.5cm
Ming dynasty, Jiajing reign (1522–1566) Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Mounts: English, c.1590–1610 (museum no. M.220-1916)
Diameter: 12.1cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
(acc. no. 79.2.1122)

seventeenth century in the Victoria and Albert Museum attest to the popularity of this Fig. 3.2.2.12 Kraak box with English Evidence of porcelain in England from the establishment of the EIC in 1600 up
silver-gilt mounts
type of Jingdezhen export porcelain in Tudor and early Stuart England. The earliest to 1644
Jingdezhen kilns, Jiangxi province
is a cup decorated with panels of pending emblems and a scholar’s table fitted with Ming dynasty, Wanli reign (1573–1620) Textual sources indicate that after the establishment of the EIC in 1600, porcelain
mounts of c.1585, which transformed it into a chalice with a high pedestal. The Mounts: English, c.1570–1580 continued to be imported as private trade. According to Volker, representatives of James
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Height: 14.7cm; length: 12.8cm; width: 9.3cm
other is a kendi dating to the early seventeenth century decorated with alternating Lee Collection, Royal Ontario Museum 508 Volker, 1954, p. 22. Mentioned in Impey, 1980, p. 38; I bought porcelain for him in 1604, when the booty cargo of the Portuguese ship Santa
and Pierson, 2007, p. 28.
panels of flowers and flying horses, transformed into an ewer with the addition of (inv. no. 997.158.94) 509 Mentioned in Philip Allen, ‘The Uses of Oriental Catarina was sold at auction in Amsterdam. From that same year the EIC allowed
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a mount composed of a spout terminating in a wolf’s head, handle, lid and splayed Porcelain in English Houses’, Transactions of the each of its supercargoes to import a ‘small chest’ of porcelain, but it was not until 1615
Oriental Ceramic Society, Vol. 67 (2002–2003), p. 121.
foot in c.1600–1610 (Fig. 3.2.2.13). This mounted kendi was originally at Bell Hall, 510 Marjorie Swann, Curiosities and Texts: The Culture that the EIC itself began importing porcelain, though only in small quantities. As
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Belbourghton in Leicestershire. 501 of Collecting in Early Modern England, Philadelphia, Swann has remarked, after James I made peace with Spain, new forms of aristocratic
2001, p. 16.
By the turn of the sixteenth century porcelains were still being acquired in England 511 CPS, Colonial, Volume 2: 1513–1616, 1864, material display began to emerge in England. It is reported that in December 1609,
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pp. 199–202.
as valuable curiosities. As noted by Pierson, several prominent men began collecting 512 Boynton, 1971, p. 35. Cited in Glanville, 1984, p. 247. there were ‘Preparations for launching the great ship on the morrow, and entertaining
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a variety of exotic objects that would be displayed for a selected audience, following 513 An Inventory of All the Ornaments Ympedmts and the King at a banquet on board, on china dishes; salutes to be fired’. 511 Porcelain
household stuffe in Warder Castell Anstye house
the continental fashion for cabinets of curiosity. Such objects, including porcelain, and Shaston house taken the Xth of August 1605. remained for a few decades the privilege of the royalty, nobility and rich merchant
The Lee Collection, Toronto, 1949, p. 13. Published in Wiltshire and Swindon Archives, MS 2667/22/2/2,
displayed for well-connected visitors would have reinforced the social standing of the F.J.B. Watson and Gillian Wilson, Mounted Oriental Wardour Castle Inventory, 1605. Mentioned in class who could afford such costly imported objects, but then it gradually became more
collector as well as conferred honor to both collector and viewer. From the diary Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Bracken, 2001, p. 10; and Pierson, 2007, p. 29. The widely available to different social groups. The following inventories of the nobility
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revised edition 1999, p. 7, fig. 9.
inventory also lists tapestries and leather wall-
Travels in England written by the Swiss physician and traveller Thomas Platter (1574– 500 This cup, on loan to the Victoria and Albert hangings, cushions and bed-curtains of silk and serve as examples. The 1601 inventory of Hardwick Hall, discussed in Chapter II,
Museum from the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert velvet, gilded beds and tables inlaid with marble, and
1628) who visited London in 1599, we learn that porcelain and other Chinese goods Schatzkammer collection (50–2008), is published in 192 pictures, most of which were looted or smashed lists only one piece of porcelain described as ‘a pursland [porcelain] Cup with a Cover
Kerr and Mengoni, 2011, p. 82, pl. 112.
were among a variety of natural and artificial curiosities collected by Walter Cope (d. 501 Published in Ibid., pp. 82–83, pl. 113. after a siege in 1643. Brian K. Davison, Old Wardour trymmed with silver and guilt waying fourtene ounces’. A surviving inventory taken
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Castle, English Heritage, London, 1999, p. 28. I am
1614) in his London residence. Platter notes that Cope, a politician who held office 502 Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding, ‘From the curious to the grateful to Gill Neal, Wiltshire & Swindon History in 1605 of the furnishings of the ruined Wardour Castle in Wiltshire, which belonged
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“artinatural”: the meaning of oriental porcelain in Centre, Wiltshire, for providing me with an image
at the Elizabethan court and was a close friend of the 1st Earl of Salisbury, inhabited a 17th and 18th–century English interiors’, Miranda of the original inventory. Wardour Castle was one to Sir Mathew Arundell (d. 1598), lists 154 pieces of ‘possylen’ or ‘possylon’ (porcelain)
‘fine house in the Snecgas’ and that he led them into ‘an apartment stuffed with queer [Online], 7, 2012, p. 2. http://mitranda.revues. of several properties in Wilshire bought in the 1540s displayed alongside earthenware, brass, marble, wicker and Venetian glass objects ‘In
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org/4390. Accessed November 13, 2014.
by Sir Thomas Arundell, who was related to the Earl
foreign objects in every corner, and amongst other things I saw there, the following 503 Pierson, 2007, pp. 29–30; and Peck, 2005, p. 156. of Salisbury. These properties were all confiscated the possylen house’ (Fig. 3.2.2.14). The displaying of a considerable quantity of
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504 Arthur MacGregor, Tradescant’s Rarities: Essays on when the Duke of Somerset and him were accused
seemed of interest … 25. Artful little Chinese box. 26. Earthen pitchers from China the Foundation of the Ashmolean Museum, 1683, of treason and executed in 1552. In 1570, his son Sir porcelain in a separate architectural space, like the aforementioned ‘possylen house’ at
… 33. Porcelain from China’. Platter continues to remark that ‘There are also other with a Catalogue of the Surviving Early Collections, Mathew Arundell was able to recover Wardour from Wardour, was probably new in England at this time, but the post-mortem inventory of
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William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, by an exchange
Oxford, 1983, pp. 17–18.
people in London interested in curios, but this gentleman is superior to them all for 505 bid., p. 17, note, 3. MacGregor states that this street of land. After Sir Matthew Arundell was knighted Teodósio I, 5th Duke of Braganza discussed earlier demonstrates that separate rooms
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has not been identified, while Williams suggests in 1574, he began to refurbish the castle, which he
strange objects, because of the Indian voyage he carried out with such zeal’. that it was Snow or Snor Hill. Clare Williams (ed.), regarded as family property. Mentioned in Davison, especially created for displaying porcelain already existed in continental Europe in the
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Thomas Platter’s Travels in England 1599, London, 1999, pp. 26–27. early 1560s.
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1937, p. 171. 514 As suggested by the 100 pieces of porcelain listed
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506 bid., pp. 171–172. Cited in Pierson, 2007, p. 30. among the dowager Duchess’s ‘House of glass The inventories drawn up following the Earl of Salisbury’s death in 1612 reveal
507 Williams, 1937, pp. 171–173. Cited in MacGregor, and porcelain’ in 1563, discussed in section 3.1.1 of
1983, p. 18. this Chapter. that he owned a considerable quantity of pieces of porcelain, both with and without
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