Large Ming Kraak Porcelain Bowl

A Large Ming Kraak Porcelain Bowl, Ming dynasty, Late Wanli or Tianqi period c.1600-1630. This large blue and white Ming porcelain bowl was made at Jingdezhen for export to Europe, especially the Netherlands but some were destined for Portugal. Large Kraak bowls of this type occur in old Dutch collections, sometimes on top of large pieces of 17th century oak furniture. The design epitomises the Kraak style, with six large panels alternating with six smaller panels to the interior and exterior. The large interior panels depict stylised peaches alternating with stylised flowers on long flowing stems. The large broad exterior panels are painted with finely detailed peony in flower, alternating with precious objects tied with ribbon. The ribbons are repeated in the narrower panels dangling between two bands of swastika-diaper. The well of the bowl is of precious objects tied with ribbon that has tassels at each end. It is weighted low down in other words the base as well as the low part of the sides are thickly potted, thinning towards the fragile barbed rim.For more information about Kraak Ware porcelain you can go to the History section of our website-menu, or click on the link: Kraak Ware Porcelain. For a Kraak dish with this type of painting see Kraak Porcelain, The Rise of Global Trade in the Late 16th and Early 17th Century (Teresa Canepa and Christine van der Pijl-Ketel, Jorge Welsh, London 2008. ISBN 0-9550992-9-3) page 208, plate 33, a bowl with similar exterior painting pages 224 to 227 .

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