WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)

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.