WANLI

Details

A rare late Ming blue and white 'Kraak porselein' charger
Wanli
Painted with a central shaped panel of a crouching tiger and a dragon riding through cloud and fire scrolls in a rocky river landscape, within border panels of precious objects and flowering peach, restored
52 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

In Chinese mythology, the tiger and dragon are contrasted with eachother when representing the good and evil forces in Nature.
For other 'Kraak' examples decorated with tigers, see M. Rinaldi, Kraak porcelain, London, 1989, pl. 196 and 103; and Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, C.J.A. Jörg and J. van Campen, Catalogue, p. 63, pl. 47b.

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