WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)

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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'KRAAK' DISH
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)
The dish has a foliate rim and is decorated to the centre with a frog crouching on a riverbank below leafy stems of lotus flowers and lotus buds and by overhanging rocks. The cavetto is further decorated with panels of stylised peach stems and precious objects.
18 ¾ in. (47.5 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Private Japanese Collection.

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Lot Essay

Frogs are well known in this period in the form of kendis but it is unusual to see one included in the decoration on 'Kraak' ware. A frog appears on a small dish (14 cm. diam.) exhibited by the Oriental Ceramic Society in the exhibition The Animal In Chinese Art, London, 1968, no.485 and a dish fragment featuring a frog is illustrated by Christian J.A. Jorg in Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, p.57, no.38.

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