A BLUE AND WHITE 'BURGHLEY HOUSE' PLATE, painted with a turreted building set within a tree-filled landscape with two birds below spear-head at the well and baroque scrolling at the border (rim fritting, chips), Qianlong

This plate is so called as the building bears a number of similarities to a known view of the house on a Yongzheng punchbowl in the collection of the Marquess of Exeter at Burghley House. Cf.Howard and Ayers, op.cit., pl.257, p.261, who suggest that the depiction may be derived from known English delftware examples inscribed Burleigh together with date 1745