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Queen Eleonor Henry the Archbishop of Moorish knight Jewish scholar
of Aragon, the Navigator Lisbon, Jorge Beggar
Queen mother (see p23) da Costa

Queen Isabel Infante João Infante Fernão, Knight Duke of Member of city council
Bragança
(King João II) the king’s brother St Vincent holding a fragment
King Afonso V of St Vincent’s skull
and to see the influence of Silver, Gold and many medieval and Renaissance
Oriental designs on Portuguese pieces as well as Baroque and
pieces, and vice versa. From the Jewellery Neo-Classical items from the
16th century, Portuguese Among the museum’s fine reigns of King João V, King
ceramics show a marked collection of ecclesiastical José and Queen Maria I. Of
influence of Ming, and treasures are King the foreign furniture, French
conversely the Chinese Sancho I’s gold cross pieces from the 18th century
pieces bear Portuguese (1214) and the Belém are prominent.
motifs such as coats monstrance (1506). The textiles include 17th-
of arms. By the mid- Also on display is the century bedspreads, tapestries
18th century individual 16th-century Madre (many of Flemish origin, such
potters had begun de Deus reliquary, as the 16th-century Baptism
to develop an Chinese porcelain vase, allegedly containing of Christ), embroidered rugs
increasingly personal- 18th century a thorn from the and Arraiolos carpets.
ized, European style, crown of Christ. High-
with popular, rustic designs. light of the foreign collection
The collection also includes is a sumptuous set of rare
ceramics from Italy, Spain 18th-century silver tableware.
and the Netherlands. Commissioned by José I from
the Paris workshop of François-
Thomas Germain, the 1,200
Oriental and African Art pieces include intricately
The collection of ivories and decorated tureens, sauce
furniture, with their European boats and salt cellars. The rich
motifs, further illustrates the collection of jewels came from
reciprocal influences of Portugal the convents, originally donated
and her colonies. The 16th- by members of the nobility
century predilection for the and wealthy bourgeoisie on
exotic gave rise to a huge entering the religious orders.
demand for items such as carved
ivory hunting horns from Africa. Decorative Arts
The 16th- and 17th-century
Japanese Namban screens Furniture, tapestries and textiles,
show the Portuguese trading in liturgical vestments and bishops’
Japan. Namban-jin (barbarians mitres are among the wide
from the south) is the name the range of objects on display. Gold Madre de Deus reliquary inlaid
Japanese gave to the Portuguese. The furniture collection includes with precious stones (c.1510–25)

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