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A VERY LARGE BLUE AND WHITE ‘KRAAK’ CHARGER
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)
PROVENANCE
The dish is potted with wide, faring sides, and is decorated with a central Private collection, France.
scene of a tiger on a rocky promontory next to a pine tree, surrounded by a
border of eight radiating panels, four containing Daoist emblems alternating A very similar but slightly smaller charger (49 cm. diam.) is illustrated in
with four containing peaches. The exterior is decorated with eight further Oriental Ceramics, The World’s Great Collections. Oriental Ceramics. vol. 3,
panels, each containing a circular motif. Museum Pusat, Jakarta, Tokyo, New York and San Francisco, 1982, col. pl. 37.
20 in. (50.7 cm.) diam. 明萬曆 青花克拉克式瑞虎圖大盤
$15,000-20,000
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