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87 DISH The dish is painted in the centre with different kinds of fish and aquatic
plants in soft, silvery shades of cobalt blue. The wall and rim are divided
Jingdezhen porcelain, decorated into ten sections filled with auspicious plants and animals. On the exterior
in underglaze blue rim are large sections filled with ruyi-shaped fungi, butterflies and peaches;
H 2.8 cm, Dia. 21.3 cm the smaller ones are filled with stylised fungi.
Ming dynasty, Wanli (1573–1620)
reign, c. 1595–1605 In the middle of the inner base is a mark in the shape of an egret or
Inv.-No. NO 25, on loan from the OKS heron. Only around sixty Kraak wares with an egret mark are known,
PROVENANCE: Acquired by Nanne twenty of which are in the Netherlands. The egret, standing erect, is
Ottema in c. 1910 painted with a lively brush. Pieces with an egret mark can be dated,
Publ.: Harrisson 1981, pp. 28–29, according to Rinaldi, to around 1595–1605.
no. 11; Rinaldi 1989, p. 199
Ref.: Rinaldi 1989, pp. 195–208.
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