WANLI (1573-1619)

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A RARE LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE 'FROG' KENDI
WANLI (1573-1619)
The body naturalistically modelled as a recumbent frog with a small cylindrical spout issuing from its mouth, painted with flower-heads on a seeded ground below a band of overlapping ruyi-heads around the base of the tall cylindrical neck, which is decorated with a bird perched on a blossoming prunus tree
7½ in. (19 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

Kendis of this unusual form are in several museum collections, including the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, illustrated by Maura Rinaldi, Kraak Porcelain, A Moment in the History of Trade, London, 1989, pl. 234, p. 181, the Ardebil Shrine, Tehran, illustrated by John Alexander Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, London, 1981, plate 97, no. 29.465, and two in the Topkapi Saray Museum, illustrated by Krahl & Ayers, Chinese Porcelains in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, London, 1986, vol. II, nos. 1296 and 1297, pp. 730 and 731.

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