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A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'KRAAK'
DISH
WANLI PERIOD (1573-1619)
The dish has a foliate rim and is decorated to
the centre with a frog crouching on a riverbank
below leafy stems of lotus flowers and lotus buds
and by overhanging rocks. The cavetto is further
decorated with panels of stylised peach stems and
precious objects.
18æ in. (47.5 cm.) diam.
£3,000-5,000 US$3,900-6,500
€3,300-5,400
PROVENANCE:
Private Japanese Collection.
Frogs are well known in this period in the form
of kendis but it is unusual to see one included in
the decoration on 'Kraak' ware. A frog appears
on a small dish (14 cm. diam.) exhibited by the
Oriental Ceramic Society in the exhibition The
Animal In Chinese Art, London, 1968, no.485 and
a dish fragment featuring a frog is illustrated by
Christian J.A. Jorg in Chinese Ceramics in the
Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997,
p.57, no.38.

明萬曆 青花蓮塘蛙鳴紋克拉克式大盤
來源:
日本私人舊藏

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A SMALL BLUE AND WHITE 'BUDDHIST
LION' DISH
JIAJING SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN
A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD
(1522-66)
The dish is decorated to the centre of the interior
with two confronting Buddhist lions playing with
a be-ribboned ball amongst auspicious emblems.
The exterior is similarly decorated with four further
Buddhist lions and divided by ruyi-shaped clouds.
4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) diam.
£4,000-6,000 US$5,200-7,700
€4,400-6,600
PROVENANCE:
Collection of Henry Bar, Shanghai, 1940's.
Oriental Fine Arts, Inc. New York, 1950s.
Mr. and Mrs. Mario Belloso.
Sotheby's New York, 17-18 March 2015, lot 265.

明嘉靖 青花雙獅戲球紋盤 雙圈六字楷
書款
來源:
Henry Bar舊藏,上海,1940年代
Oriental Fine Arts Inc.,紐約, 1950年代
Mario Belloso伉儷舊藏 (mark) 32
紐約蘇富比, 2015年3月17-18日, 拍品265號

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