Antique Chinese Porcelain 16/17C Kraak Wanli Dish Porcelain Ming Landscape Figures

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Condition Report: Overall Condition typical Rimfritting only. size: 210x40mm DXH

An Unusual Wanli Kraak Ware Saucer Shaped Porcelain Dish.. The moulded double chrysanthemum petal rim gives this Kraak porcelain dish its distinctive look. The central design is painted with a rather beautifully painted landscape scene with fishermen on boats and figures passing a bridge. Also visible are pagodes, Rocks and in the background behin the mountain a mast of a boat. Shards of a Kraak saucer-dish were excavated at Santa Fe La Vieja, Argentina. Archaeology, as well as extant pieces shows that this type of Kraak porcelain was popular in Portugal and Spain as well as their colonies in the New World.

See, Jingdezhen to the World, The Lurie Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Late Ming (Teresa Canepa, 2019. ISBN 978-1-912168-09-5) pages 130-131 plate 38.

According to Rinaldi this dish can be classified as a border I (type b, with scallops) dish. Border I (c.1750-1625) dishes are small (c.200-220 mm / 7.87-8.66 inch), with a convex cavetto and an occasionally slightly flaring, foliated rim. The border has no underglaze blue decoration but the mouldings show a great variety of designs. Based on these designs it is possible to divide this long-lasting group into two categories (type a and b) and in chronological order. Type a dishes usually have very elaborate mouldings and in better quality pieces are clearly defined. Type b dishes have scalloped cavettos, with the scallops almost invariably arranged in double tiers. These pieces are usually coarser than the type a pieces with more complex mouldings. (Rinaldi 1989)

Jörg states that this type of impressed side decoration occurs on small to medium sized kraak dishes, but not on the lampetschotels (large dishes). (Jörg 2002/2)

According to Litzenburg similarly moulded kraak dishes are known that exhibit a central decoration with birds, vases, flowers, ruyi-heads, or ribboned emblems. Rinaldi notes that some of the landscape scenes appear to foreshadow the style of the ‘Transitional period’ (1620-1683).Two related examples in the Topkapi Sarray Museum were inlaid with jewels and gold, which attest to the value attributed to these simple export dishes. (Litzenburg 2003)

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