A Wanli Kraak Porcelain Klapmuts
A Wanli Kraak Porcelain Klapmuts c.1590 – 1610. The central scene of this late Ming Kraakware bowl owes more to the 16th century than the 17th. Chinese porcelain bowls and dishes with similar landscapes were popular from around the 1560s. The landscape with its perspective of layering distance vertically is typical, a small vessel plies its way between rock promontories with little buildings nestled among rocky outcrops. The cavetto has four Ruyi shaped cartouches, two with Precious Objects and two with flowers. The foliate rim is painted with scrolling peony. The back is decorated with flowering plants and birds. The footrim has a small pierced hole to enable the bowl to be hung from the wall with string or wire.
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- Condition
- Very minor friting.
- Size
- Diameter 21 cm (8 1/4 inches)
- Provenance
- N/A
- Stock number
- 2 5 2 2 1
- References
- For a similar Kraak porcelain bowl see : Kraak Porcelain, a Moment in the History of Trade (Maura Rinaldi, Bamboo Publishing Ltd, 1989) page 123, plate 131. This Kraak klapmuts is in the Groninger Museum (Inv. 1981-1687).
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A nautilus cup with a silver salt, a red clay pot decorated with a prancing stag holding ostrich feathers on a partially draped table with a blue and white porcelain bowl, a knife, oyster shells and a piece of manuscript
oil on canvas: a fragment
21¾ x 16 in. (55.2 x 40.6 cm.) Christies, London.
1612-13
Oil on panel, 55 x 85 cm
Private collection
