A late Ming blue and white 'kraak porselein' charger

WANLI

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A late Ming blue and white 'kraak porselein' charger
Wanli
The large central roundel decorated with a writhing scaly dragon, surrounded on the well and shaped rim with radiating panels alternately enclosing Buddhistic Symbols and stems of flowering peach, divided by a tasselled flower-head or artemesia leaf on keyfret- and wave-pattern grounds (some damages and restoration)
51 cm. diam.

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