A Late 17th Century Japanese Kraak Style Dish
A 17th Century Japanese Blue and White Porcelain Dish in the Kraak Style, Arita Kilns 1670 – 1700. The center of this heavily potted Japanese porcelain dish is painted with two phoenixes with pomegranate and camellia. The Kraak style border has typical panels with peony, bamboo, prunus and precious objects. Japanese porcelain dishes of this type were made in Japan to fill a gap in the market after the V.O.C. stopped ordering Kraak porcelain in the 1650’s. The Kraak style border is similar to those made with the emblem of the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, (V.O.C. or Dutch East India Company) see Christiaan J.A. Jörg in Fine and Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections (Christian J.A. Jörg, Hotei Publishing, 2003. ISBN 90-74822-16-9. Page 225, plate 285).
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- Condition
- This Japanese porcelain dish is rubbed has allot fine scratches to the front and back. In some South East Asian countries sand was used to clean ceramics, many celadon dishes exhibit similar scratched surfeaces.
- Size
- Diameter 27.7 cm (10 3/4 inches).
- Provenance
- Soame Jenyns, Deputy Keeper of Asian Antiquities, British Museum (1950-1968) and thence by decent. Mr. Roger Soame Jenyns (1904-1976) was the foremost scholar of his generation in the arts of Japan and China. He was a discerning collector and a member of the British General Committee of the Royal Academy Exhibition 1935-1956. His books include Later Chinese Ceramics (1951) Ming Pottery and Porcelain (1953) Wares of the Transitional Period between Ming and the Ch'ing 1620-1683 (1955) Japanese Porcelain (1965) Japanese Pottery (1971) and (with Margaret Jourdain) Chinese Export Art in the Eighteenth Century (1950).
- Stock number
- 25245
- References
- For more information about Soame Jenyns see : Provenance ; Collectors, Dealers & Scholars : Chinese Ceramics in Britain & America (Roy Davids, Dominic Jellinek, Privately Printed, 2011. ISBN 978-0-9570148-0-0). For a very similar dish from a private collection is illustrated by Christiaan Jörg in : Fine and Curious, Japanese Export Porcelain in Dutch Collections (Christian J.A. Jorg, Hotei Publishing, 2003. ISBN 90-74822-16-9)
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