CIRCA 1635-1650

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A Transitional blue and white 'kraak porselein' bowl
Circa 1635-1650
The steep sides painted with fan-shaped panels enclosing landscape scenes with two Chinese figures conversing on a river-bank, European-style houses in the distance, the central roundel decorated with ducks in a river running through a European village, surrounded by three large panels enclosing two figures in a mountainous landscape, divided by panels of stylised lotus, restored
36.5 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

In Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, p. 64, ill.49, C.J.A.Jörg suggests that the tulips, typical of these wares, may have been derived from European embroideries. He also points out that 'a Dutch print or drawing may have been sent as a model for the decoration of these wares, although there is no reference to this in the VOC records'. For scenes with similar European-style houses and Chinese figures, see also an example in The Sypesteyn Museum, Loosdrecht, illustrated in D.F. Lunsingh Scheurleer, Chinese Export Porcelain, Chine de Commande, fig. 45 and 46; and M. Rinaldi, Kraak Porcelain, London, 1989, p. 163, pl. 202.

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