“The whole world is encapsulated in one piece.”
Curator Ellenor Alcorn on a sixteenth-century ewer from Burghley House, Lincolnshire.
In Conversation
Ellenor Alcorn
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Contributors
Ellenor Alcorn
Curator
Curator
Photography by Bruce J. Schwarz
Art Mentioned
British, London mounts and Chinese porcelain
Chinese porcelain 1573– ca. 1585, British mounts ca. 1585
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