Lot Essay
Literature; Maura Rinaldi, Kraak Porcelain, A Moment in the History Trade, London, 1989, p. 190, pl.249.
Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkaki Saray Museum, Istanbul, ed. J. Ayers, London, 1986, no. 1290.
Catalogue Notes; The unusual design of this bottle can be found in a similar piece in the National Museum in Jakarta, in the Topkapi Saray Museum in Istanbul, and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. These bottles should have a date within the last quarter of the sixteenth century. This would be indicated by the English silver mount of the piece in the Metropolitan Museum, which may be dated c.1585.
Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkaki Saray Museum, Istanbul, ed. J. Ayers, London, 1986, no. 1290.
Catalogue Notes; The unusual design of this bottle can be found in a similar piece in the National Museum in Jakarta, in the Topkapi Saray Museum in Istanbul, and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. These bottles should have a date within the last quarter of the sixteenth century. This would be indicated by the English silver mount of the piece in the Metropolitan Museum, which may be dated c.1585.