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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE FOLIATE-RIM ‘KRAAK Perhaps the most comparable dish to ours was illustrated by Julia B
PORSELAIN’ CHARGER Curtis, in an article entitled ‘Transition Ware Made Plain: A Wreck From
Wanli Period, Early 17th century The South China Sea’, Oriental Art, Volume XXXI, no. 2, Summer,
Well painted in deep cobalt blue with a central medallion enclosing a 1985, p. 172, fig. 23 and which later was sold at Christie’s, New York,
deer group playing under the pine tree surrounded with lappet panels 16 March 2015, lot 3504.
decorated with flowers and insets, the exterior with a bird perching on
a tree branch and set on an unglazed recessed foot. For another superb blue and white Wanli period ‘Kraak Porselein’ dish
17 1/2in (44.5cm) diameter of slightly larger size, with a horse rather than deer at the center, but
with similar layout of the border panels, see Bonhams, London, 12
$5,000 - 7,000 May 2016, lot 40.
明萬曆 十七世紀早期 青花克拉克瓷花鳥鹿紋盤

Provenance:
C. Gray, London

來源：
C. Gray, 倫敦

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