THREE BLUE AND WHITE KRAAK WARES Wanli
THREE BLUE AND WHITE KRAAK WARES
Wanli
Comprising: a barbed rim 'river landscape' dish, the sides decorated with panels of birds and flowers; a dish with moulded bands of radiating lotus petals to the sides enclosing a panel with a frog amongst rockwork and lotus; and a barbed rim bowl decorated to the centre with a grasshopper amongst flowers and rockwork.
The largest 30.5cm (12in) diam. (3).
明萬曆 克拉克青花瓷 三件
Provenance: The frog dish: Marchant & Son, London (label)
Depictions of frogs are rare in late Ming porcelain. For a pair of dishes each depicting a frog see Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain and related Underglaze Red, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1975, no. 63.
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THREE BLUE AND WHITE KRAAK WARES
Wanli
Comprising: a barbed rim 'river landscape' dish, the sides decorated with panels of birds and flowers; a dish with moulded bands of radiating lotus petals to the sides enclosing a panel with a frog amongst rockwork and lotus; and a barbed rim bowl decorated to the centre with a grasshopper amongst flowers and rockwork.
The largest 30.5cm (12in) diam. (3).
明萬曆 克拉克青花瓷 三件
Provenance: The frog dish: Marchant & Son, London (label)
Depictions of frogs are rare in late Ming porcelain. For a pair of dishes each depicting a frog see Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain and related Underglaze Red, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1975, no. 63.
