Mounted dish with figures in a landscape from Burghley House, Lincolnshire

British, London mounts and Chinese porcelain

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 509

Chinese porcelains were a great rarity in sixteenth-century England, and they were often fitted with gilt-silver mounts that proclaimed their high status as luxury objects. Examples such as this were regarded as suitable for royal gifts or for the furnishing of aristocratic houses.

Mounted dish with figures in a landscape from Burghley House, Lincolnshire, Hard-paste porcelain, gilded silver, British, London mounts and Chinese porcelain

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Mounted dish with figures in a landscape from Burghley House, Lincolnshire, Hard-paste porcelain, gilded silver, British, London mounts and Chinese porcelain
Mounted dish with figures in a landscape from Burghley House, Lincolnshire, Hard-paste porcelain, gilded silver, British, London mounts and Chinese porcelain
Mounted dish with figures in a landscape from Burghley House, Lincolnshire, Hard-paste porcelain, gilded silver, British, London mounts and Chinese porcelain

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