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How this English porcelain bottle mount embraces China with antiquity

"The whole world is encapsulated in one piece."
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"The whole world is encapsulated in one piece."

Curator Ellenor Alcorn on the "Ewer from Burghley House, Lincolnshire."

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Ewer from Burghley House, Lincolnshire, Hard-paste porcelain, gilded silver, British, London mounts and Chinese porcelain
Ewer from Burghley House, Lincolnshire
British, London mounts and Chinese porcelain
Chinese porcelain 1573– ca. 1585, British mounts ca. 1585