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A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE KRAAK PORSELEIN KENDI
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A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE KRAAK PORSELEIN KENDI

WANLI (1573-1619)

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A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE KRAAK PORSELEIN KENDI
WANLI (1573-1619)
With a globular body below a tall cylindrical neck flaring to a wide mouth rim shaped with star petals, the slender spout bending at the end and applied with branch-like supports, the body lightly lobed into six panels, painted with a ruyi pendant below the spout and floral designs in the others, the neck with a bird amongst reeds and flowers, minor extremity restoration
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
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Lot Essay

The popular name for these kendis is 'pomegranate ewer' owing to the distinctive star-shaped mouth rim. A very similar ewer in the Groninger Museum, Groningen is illustrated by Maura Rinaldi in Kraak Porcelain, London, 1989, colour plate 255, where the author suggests a date of circa 1600-10 for this type of kendi.

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