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PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT PRIVATE COLLECTION                   PROPERTY FROM A PROMINENT PRIVATE COLLECTION

A BLUE AND WHITE KRAAK DISH                                    A BLUE AND WHITE KRAAK ‘DEER’ DISH
MING DYNASTY, WANLI PERIOD                                     MING DYNASTY, WANLI PERIOD

painted with a central lobed octafoil cartouche enclosing a    painted at the center with two deer in a rocky river landscape,
lady seated by an open terrace looking out to a spotted deer   with ruyi-form clouds above, the attened barbed rim with
beneath a willow tree, framed by bracketed diaper borders,     an eight-paneled molded border with shaped cartouches
the lobed rim molded with eight panels, alternately enclosing  enclosing birds, lotus and owering plants, all reserved on a
fruiting and owering branches and precious objects, the        washed blue ground, the underside painted with alternating
underside with further panels enclosing fruiting peach and     insect and lingzhi panels
lingzhi                                                        Diameter 8¼ in., 21 cm
Diameter 11⅞ in., 30.2 cm
                                                               PROVENANCE
PROVENANCE                                                     Godden, London, June 1987.
Peters, Tilburg, April 1983.                                   The Sengers Collection, no. 206.
The Sengers Collection, no. 156.                               S. Marchant & Son, London, 2001.
S. Marchant & Son, London, 2001.
                                                               EXHIBITED
EXHIBITED                                                      Exhibition of Ming Blue and White Porcelain. The Drs. A. M.
Exhibition of Ming Blue and White Porcelain. The Drs. A. M.    Sengers Collection, Marchant, London, cat. no. 40.
Sengers Collection, S. Marchant & Son, London, 2001, cat.
no. 49.                                                        LITERATURE
                                                               Maura Rinaldi, Kraak Porcelain. A Moment in the History of
LITERATURE                                                     Trade, London, 1989, pl. 264n.
Maura Rinaldi, Kraak Porcelain. A Moment in the History of
Trade, London, 1989, pl. 85.                                   $ 2,000-3,000

$ 3,000-5,000

Peters            1983 4                                       Godden        1987 6    2001
                                                               Sengers            206
                                                               S Marchant
                                                                           Son

Sengers            156

S. Marchant & Son         2001                                    Exhibition of Ming Blue and White Porcelain. The
                                                               Drs. A. M. Sengers Collection Marchant
Exhibition of Ming Blue and White Porcelain. The
                                                                     40

Drs. A. M. Sengers Collection S. Marchant & Son

        2001       49                                          Maura Rinaldi Kraak Porcelain. A Moment in the

                                                               History of Trade        1989  264n

Maura Rinaldi Kraak Porcelain. A Moment in the

History of Trade          1989  85
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