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Lot Estimate
ZAR 30 000 - 40 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 34 140
About this Item
A large Chinese blue and white 'Kraak' dish, Ming Dynasty, Wanli period, 1573-1620
the centre decorated with eight ducks before a riverscape with waterlilies and foliage, the cavetto with panels of cell-and-diaper decoration, the border with alternating panels of sunflowers, peaches and auspicious symbols divided by Buddhist knot-and-ribbon batons, the reverse with stylised panels of fungus and dots alternating with stylised linghzi, chips, fritting chips, hairline cracks, 50cm diameter
Provenance
Purchased from Anita Gray of GRAYS, 58 Davies St., London, W1, 19 April 1982.
The Jerling Collection of Blue & White 'Kraak' Porcelain.
Literature
cf. Rinaldi, M (1989) Kraak Porcelain, A Moment in the History of Trade, Bamboo Publishing Ltd, London, where a similar example is illustrated on page 101, pl. 90.
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