CIRCA 1635-50

Details

A blue and white Transitional bowl
Circa 1635-50
The inner central panel depicting European-style houses on a riverbank with two boating figures and ducks in the foreground, surrounded on both steep sides with various figure scenes including similar buildings, divided by Iznik-style tulip panels, small hairline crack, rim frittings
35.3 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

For scenes with similar European-style houses and Chinese figures, see 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, London, 1989, Kraak Porcelain, p. 163, pl. 202.

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