A Late Ming Kraak Ware Porcelain Dish

Late Ming, Wanli to Chongzhen c.1600 - 1630

A Late Ming Kraak Ware Moulded Dish, Wanli to Chongzhen Period c.1600 – 1630. The center of this Kraak Ware dish is decorated with a frog watching flowering lotus in the water below, a large peony in flower is above. The cavetto of this Kraak dish has eight shaped panels filled with flowers, peaches and auspicious objects. The base has a small area of chatter marks and a little bit of grit adhering to the glaze. The grit was used to stop the piece sticking in the glaze firing.

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Condition
Minor friting.
Size
Diameter 22 cm (8 2/3 inches).
Provenance
N/A
Stock number
25759

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Giovanna Garzoni, a painter and miniaturist from Marche (1600 - 1670).
Giovanna Garzoni, a painter and miniaturist from Marche (1600 - 1670). Kraak ware dish.

 

Fruit still life with shells, Balthasar van der Ast (Middelburg), 1620.
Fruit still life with shells and fruit on a Ming Kraak porcelain dish. Balthasar van der Ast (Middelburg), 1620.

 

Still Life including Kraak Porcelain. Jacob van Hulsdonck (Antwerp), 1582 – 1647. Sotheby’s
Still Life including Kraak Porcelain. Jacob van Hulsdonck (Antwerp), 1582 – 1647. Sotheby’s