A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE 'KRAAK PORSELEIN' FROG-SHAPED KENDI

THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN

Details

A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE 'KRAAK PORSELEIN' FROG-SHAPED KENDI
wanli

The body naturalistically modelled as a frog holding a short cylinder in its mouth forming the spout, painted with flower-heads on a seeded ground below a band of overlapping ruyi-heads around the tall cylindrical neck with a bird flying beside another bird perched on a blossoming prunus tree, some fritting
7in. (18cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. the very similar example from the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden (Inv.1707) illustrated by M. Rinaldi, Kraak Porcelain, A Moment in the History of Trade, pl.234, p.181; another from the Ardebil Shrine, illustrated by J. A. Pope, op.cit., no.29.465, pl.97 and p.132; other frog kendis are illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, vol.II, nos. 1296 and 1297, p.731, and by du Sartel, Porcelaine de Chine, fig.10, p.23

A similar kendi was sold in these Rooms, 4 June 1973, lot 136

More from Chinese

View All