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A rare Chinese late Ming blue and white 'kraak porselein' charger
Lot 602

A rare Chinese late Ming blue and white 'kraak porselein' charger

WANLI (1573-1619)

Closed29 September 1999

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NLG 14,042

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A rare Chinese late Ming blue and white 'kraak porselein' charger
Wanli (1573-1619)
Painted to the centre with a tiger prancing in a fenced garden towards a Daoist figure waving to rings, within a band of meandering foliage and lotus-heads, surrounded on the well and broad rim with eight radiating panels of three different harvesting scenes and one of two scholars between branches of blossoming flowers (rim frittings)
48cm. diam.

Specialist note

It is uncommon to find a tiger depicted on 'kraak' porcelain. In the Rijksmuseum there is an example of a 'kraak porselein' bowl depicting a tiger in the inner panel although it is not accompagnied by a Daoist figure. However, there is a polychrome Swatow dish illustrated by K. Saito, Toji Taikei, vol. 45, 'Gosu-aka-e', Nanking-aka-e with a similar Daoist figure waving two rings at a tiger below another figure extracting a flaming pearl from the mouth of a dragon. In Chinese mythology, the tiger and dragon are contrasted with eachother when representing the good and evil forces in Nature.

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