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mounts. The inventory of Salisbury House, his London residence in the Strand, lists
81 pieces of porcelain in a room described as the ‘Cabonnett’, including ‘thirty flat
fruit dishes of a lesser size, painted and gilt of diverse sorts’, which were presumably
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Kinrande or blue-and-white and gilded porcelain. Knowles has noted that the inventory
of the Earl of Salisbury’s country estate, Hatfield House, drawn up in 1612, lists 65
pieces of porcelain. Another inventory drawn up seventeen years later, in 1629, lists
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‘in the Chamber over the Porters Lodge … XXVI China dishes sett out a banquet’. 517
This clearly shows that by this time porcelain was not only regarded in England as
a valuable curiosity worth of displaying, but also as a functional object for use as
tableware at the dinner table.
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515 Mentioned in Bracken, 2001, p. 9; Pierson, 2007, Porcelain also appears listed in the 1614 inventory of Henry Howard, Earl
p. 29; and Philippa Glanville, ‘Oriental Porcelain in
16th and 17th Century England’, Transactions of the of Northampton, mentioned in Chapter II. Among the jewels and plate is listed ‘a
Oriental Ceramic Society, Vol. 72, 2007–2008, p. 70. cupboard contayninge seeven parcels of Purslane cuppes trimmed with silver and
516 James Knowles, ‘Cecil’s Shopping Centre. The
rediscovery of a Ben Jonson masque in praise of guilte’, valued at 12 pounds, left to Lady Lumley. There is also ‘a China guilte
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trade’, Times Literary Supplement, 7 February 1997,
pp. 14–15. cabonnet upon a frame’, valued at 30 pounds, listed among the ‘Household-stuffe at
517 Mentioned in Impey, 1998, p. 60; and Pierson, 2007, London’. This suggests that porcelain fitted with mounts was displayed or kept in
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p. 29.
518 Oliver Impey, ‘Porcelain for Palaces’, in John Ayers, cupboards. An inventory drawn up in 1619 after the death of Ann of Denmark (1574–
Oliver Impey and J.V.G. Mallet, Porcelain for Palaces:
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The Fashion for Japan in Europe, 1650–1750, 1619), Queen consort of James I, lists 14 pieces of mounted porcelain, Chinese
exhibition catalogue, Oriental Ceramic Society, textiles and mother-of-pearl caskets. This same year, Sir Thomas Dale sent a box
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London, 1990, p. 57; Pierson, 2007, p. 33. Visual
sources indicate that English noble families were from Batavia containing 82 pieces of porcelain as gift for his brother-in law, despite
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dining with a limited range of utensils, mainly plates
made of silver or pewter. See, for instance, a portrait EIC instructions given to its servants in Asia not to trade privately in porcelain. Recent
painting of William Brooke, 10th Baron of Cobham research by Lux has shown that the EIC was giving porcelain as diplomatic gifts at
and his family of 1567, reproduced by permission of
the Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Warmister, this time. In December 1618, for instance, the EIC sent ‘35 great basins or chargers,
Wilshire, by Alejandra Gutiérrez, ‘Of Sundry
Colours and Mouls. Imports of Early Pottery Along 17 great dishes or platters, 33 of a lesser sort, 25 great porringers or posset bowls, and
the Atlantic Seaboard’, in André Teixeira and José 1,000 cups of various patterns’ as gift to the King of Persia. 524
António Bettencourt (eds.), Velhos e Novos Mundos.
Estudos de Arqueologia Moderna – Old and New An inventory taken slightly later, in 1620, of the belongings of Lady Dorothy
Worlds. Studies on Early Modern Archaeology, Vol.
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1, 2012, p. 47, fig. 12. Shirley, whose second husband was George Shirley, at her house in Farrington,
519 Arqueologia, Vol. XLII, 1869, p. 353. Cited in Glanville, lists ‘purslin stuffe, Chinie stuffe, and cubbert frames, shelves and stooles’ among the
1984, p. 255.
520 Arqueologia, Vol. XLII, 1869, p. 354. ‘Silver Plate in my la. Closett’. This is another example of the display cabinet frames
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521 Anne of Denmark was the second daughter of King
Frederick II of Denmark and Norway (r.1559–1588) and shelves associated with porcelain. There are also ‘ij [2] dozen of fruite purslen
and Sophie Mecklenburg-Güstrow (1557–1631), dishes, and tun [10] dishes’ listed in ‘my Ladies Clossett and Chmbare att Atswell’. 527
daughter of the Duke Ulrich III of Mecklenburg-
Güstrow (1527–1603) and Princess Elizabeth of Her husband, George Shirley, was made Sheriff of Northamptonshire and knighted
Denmark (1524–1586). Ann was 15 years old when
she married by proxy King James, then James VI of in 1603, when he conducted James I through that county on his first entrance into
Scotland, in 1589. England; and he was included in the original creation of Baronets in 1611. Porcelain
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522 Mentioned in Glanville, 2007–2008, p. 70.
523 Mentioned in Farrington, 2002, p. 82; and Pierson, is also listed in an inventory taken in 1629 of the belongings of Arthur Coke, of
2007, p. 27.
524 Original Correspondence of the East India Company, Bramfield, the third son of Sir Edward Coke, Lord Chief Justice of England. 529
1602–1712, No. 717. Cited in Lux, 2014, p. 147. Arthur Coke and his wife Elizabeth (d.1627), daughter and sole heiress of Sir George
525 Dorothy was the widow of Sir Henry Unton (d. 1596).
She married George Shirley in 1598. Nichols, 1841, Waldegrave, lived at the old manor house called Brook Hall, in Bramfield, where he
p. lxvii.
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526 Ibid., p. 26. Cited in Glanville, 2007–2008, p. 71. collected an astonishing amount of curiosities. In ‘the Parlor Chamber Clossett’ are
527 Nichols, 1841, p. 30. listed ‘iij [3] gally potts, vij [7] China dishes with other Tryfles’, valued at 4 shillings;
528 Ibid., pp. lxvii and lxviii.
529 Francis W. Steer, ‘The Inventory of Arthur Coke of and in the ‘Mistress Cokes Clossett’ are ‘certayne brasse waytes, certayne China dishes,
Bramfield, 1629’, Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute
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of Archaeology, Vol. XXV, Part 3 (1951), p. 265. glasse plates, & certayne water glasses’, valued at 8 shillings.
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530 bid., pp. 265–266. The inventory of the goods belonging to Lettice, Countess of Leicester, taken in
531 Ibid., pp. 278 and 280, respectively.
532 James Orchard Halliwell (ed.), Ancient Inventories of January 1634 after her death, lists among the plate and jewels: ‘one pursland boule,
Furniture, Pictures, Tapestry, Plate, etc. illustrative of
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the domestic manner of the English in the sixteenth with a guilt foote and a guilt cover’, valued at 45 shillings. In her ‘Sweete-meate
and seventeenth Centuries. Selected from inedited
Fig. 3.2.2.14 Inventory of Wardour Castle, Manuscripts, London, 1854, p. 4. Cited in Glanville, Closett’ are listed ‘sixe pursland fruit dishes’, which together with ‘bone lace of divers
1605 (document no. 2667/22/21) 1984, p. 255. Glanville translated the term ‘boule’ sorts, glass bottles, waxe lights, many glasses, a trunke and other boxes, and divers
Wiltshire Council, Wiltshire & Swindon as bottle. other trifles’, are only valued at 40 shillings. The 1638 inventory of the Viscountess
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History Centre 533 Halliwell, 1854, p. 12. Cited in Glanville, 1984, p. 255.
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