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

British, London mounts and Chinese porcelain

porcelain 1573– ca. 1585, mounts ca. 1585

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.

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Title: Mounted dish with figures in a landscape from Burghley House, Lincolnshire
Date: porcelain 1573– ca. 1585, mounts ca. 1585
Culture: British, London mounts and Chinese porcelain
Medium: Hard-paste porcelain, gilded silver
Dimensions: Overall: 4 × 14 3/8 in. (10.2 × 36.5 cm)
Classification: Metalwork-Silver In Combination
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1944
Object Number: 44.14.1
Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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