Antique Chinese Wanli Small Kraak Plate 1600 Porcelain Ming Magpie & Butterflies

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Condition Report: Overall Condition Restored piece, fritting and a firing flaw in base. Size 145x32mm

Beautiful dish in lobed form with a magpie in a tree and a butterfly in flight.

Similar piece picture in;
Jingdezhen to the World: The Lurie Collection of Chinese Export Porcelain from the Late Ming Dynasty (Ad Ilissum) 1st Edition by Teresa Canepa (Author)

Magpie

Magpie (xi que). The “bird of joy” and of good omen, brings joy, often married bliss. Its call heralds good news or the arrival of a guest. “Two magpies” was pronounced the same as “two happinesses,” so a painting of two magpies was a pictorial metaphor for double happiness and thus an appropriate subject for a painting to be given to someone to express congratulations, especially for a wedding. The myth also has it that if a man and a wife had to separate for a while they would brake a mirror and take a half each. If the woman succumbed to other men in the meantime, her half would turn into a magpie and fly back to her husband.

Butterfly

Butterfly – joy and conjugal felicity. Butterfly is pronounced in homonym with the word die which means a 80 years old. Two butterflies together is meant a wish of “longevity”. “Die” is also pronounced similar to another word which means to “pile up” or “repeat” – and thus given the meaning “many”.

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