A LARGE MING BLUE AND WHITE 'KRAAK PORSELEIN' DEEP DISH

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A LARGE MING BLUE AND WHITE 'KRAAK PORSELEIN' DEEP DISH
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Painted with a central roundel enclosing figures in a terraced garden landscape, within a band of leafy chrysanthemum scroll, the wide everted rim with panels alternately enclosing sailing boats before European waterfronts and figures in gardens, rim crack
18¼ in. (47 cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Compare the smaller dish with a similar design illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, 1976, p.292, pl.283; and another exhibited, Transitional Wares and their Forerunners, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, 1981, Catalogue no.32, illustrated in colour on p.84.

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