The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Two-handled bowl (part of a set)

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Reading, Writing, and Roentgen

Carolyn Sargentson, independent art historian and Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum, outlines how changing social practices altered the designs and styles of furniture, both for the nobility and the lower classes.

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Extravagant Inventions: The Princely Furniture of the Roentgens on view October 30, 2012–January 27, 2013.

The exhibition and catalogue are made possible by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.

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Two-handled bowl (part of a set)

Date:: Porcelain 1573–1620; mounts ca. 1585
Culture:: Chinese with British (London) mounts
Medium:: Hard-paste porcelain, silver gilt
Dimensions:: H: 6 1/4 in. (15.9 cm.), Diam: 9 1/2 in. (24.1 cm.), Diam. with handles: 13 in. (33 cm.)
Classification:: Metalwork
Credit Line:: Rogers Fund, 1944
Accession Number:: 44.14.5

This artwork is currently on display in Gallery 510

Description

A magnificent house and its rich furnishings were an essential expression of power in the sixteenth century. This group of Chinese porcelain with finely-worked mounts is associated with the family of Elizabeth I’s adviser, William Cecil, Lord Burghley. The pieces may have been a bequest from the colonizer of Virginia, Sir Walter Raleigh, to Lord Burghley’s son Robert.
Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Marking: unmarked
Provenance

William Cecil, Lord Burghley , Burghley, Northamptonshire, England ; Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter ; William Alleyne Cecil, 3rd Marquis of Exeter ; [ Exeter Sale, Christie's, London , June 7–8, 1888, 256-59; sold to Agnew ] ; William Agnew (in 1888) ; J. Pierpont Morgan ; J. P. Morgan Jr.
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What
Metal (59,501)

Clay (23,629)

Metalwork (14,681)

Silver (14,046)

Faience (11,688)

Porcelain (11,377)

Gilt (9,077)

Bowls (5,013)

Hard paste porcelain (2,916)
When
A.D. 1400-1600 (20,608)
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