Two-handled bowl from Burghley House, Lincolnshire
British, London mounts and Chinese porcelain
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.
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