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 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.