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Fig. 12.23 Landscape bowls transferring the design from scroll painting to porcelains

Figs. 12.24–12.26 Porcelain wares made for export trade with Japan

combine blue-on-white and polychrome painting (Fig. 12.26). Some blue-on-white
porcelains also are Japan-market wares, such as a dish depicting a !shpond with a
netting background (Fig. 12.27) and a notably !nely painted small bowl with an
asymmetric naturalistic bamboo design (Fig. 12.28).

12.8 European Trade

Paneled wares, often called Kraak wares, became the standard trade wares to
Spaniards and Portuguese, then Dutch and English, from the 1580s through the
1640s. The few examples in this cargo illustrate the beginnings of this design
sequence. There are examples with one-line dividers on heavily potted bowls
(Fig. 12.29) and others with two-line dividers on thinly potted and molded bowls
which fully conform to the de!nition of Kraak ware (Figs. 12.30 and 12.31).
Finds of small and sometimes fragmentary Chinese metal objects can be tied to
the European trades. A fragment of brass mounting suggests that it might have