Provenance:
- Private Collection, United Kingdom
- With Vanderven Oriental Art, 1997
Condition Report Available
€ 14,500
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This large and robustly potted bowl, is decorated inside and out in intense underglaze blue with a violet tinge. It is in the typical so-called ‘Kraak’ style, with characteristics of the later Ming Dynasty. The bowl has high straight sides with a lightly foliated rim. It rests on a V–shaped foot rim, with a triple blue line running around the outside, with a rough unglazed edge. The glazed underside is slightly convex, with no further marks or decoration.
The decoration - both inside and out - is divided into six wide and six narrow bordered panels, alternately adorned with stylized flowers and narrative scenes. Each of the larger panels is framed by a straight-edged scroll border with a stylized flower along the top edge. The narrow panels are each filled with upright sprays of tulips or other flowers. The central medallion on the inside of the bowl, is loosely decorated with houses by a waterside, a decorative theme thought to be influenced by European designs entering China at this time.
Such bowls are characteristic of the Kraak wares produced for export in this period. Similar bowls are also known with slightly varying decoration in the central panel, such as of a lady spooling silk or of large figures in a garden. A very similar bowl to this one is in the collection of The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (inv. Nr AK-RAK 1991-21) and Institut Néerlandais - Fondation Custodia, Paris (inv. 6967).
- Avitabile 1992, p.40 pl. 53
- Canepa 2008, p. 414 nr. 59
- Jörg & van Campen 1997, p.64
- Hartog 1990, p. 48 nr. 20-22
- Lion-Goldschmidt 1978, p.215-216, pl.245 & 245bis
- Lunsingh-Scheurleer 1981, nr. 70 p. 65-66
- Rinaldi 1989, p. 138, 163-64 pl. 203
- Sèvres 2004, p.109
- Wu 2014, p. 164, 174
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