Porcelain
The Museum holds a small collection of Chinese Export porcelain - made for the European market and traded through the East India Company - as well as a series of Qing Dynasty wares, some made exclusively for Imperial use. The displays also contain attractive examples of blanc de chine and famille rose wares.
Gallery 7 also contains examples of European ceramics from the 18th- and early 19th centuries from the workshops of Sèvres and Meissen. Two 16th-century plates from Italy are the Museum's only examples of maiolica. These European items were collected by earlier generations of the Powell-Cotton family and feature in their Wills.
