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Live Virtual Auction, 11 - 13 April 2021

Oriental Works of Art

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ZAR 45 520
Lot 166
  • A large Chinese blue and white 'Kraak' style bowl, Jingdezhen, 17th century


Lot Estimate
ZAR 40 000 - 60 000
Selling Price
Incl. Buyer's Premium & VAT
ZAR 45 520

About this Item

A large Chinese blue and white 'Kraak' style bowl, Jingdezhen, 17th century

the centre decorated with a seated maiden spinning yarn before a foliate spray within a panelled interior, enclosed by two panels of a courtier and his attendant before a waterscape with dwellings in the distance and a third panel with figures before a riverscape alternating with Iznik style flowers, the reverse similarly decorated, raised on a tapering foot, fritting chips, hairline crack, 36,5cm diameter

Provenance

Purchased from Anita Gray of GRAYS, 58 Davies Street, London, W1, 7 May 1982.

The Jerling Collection of Blue & White 'Kraak' Porcelain.

Exhibited

cf. Exhibition of Blue and White Porcelain from the 12th-18th Century including ceramics from the Hatcher Wreck and Piccus Collection, La Chine des Ts'ing, 13 Mutual Square, Rosebank, 26 March-10 April 1985, where a similar example was exhibited.

Literature

cf. Rinaldi, M (1989) Kraak Porcelain, A Moment in the History of Trade, Bamboo Publishing Ltd, London, where a similar example is illustrated in colour on page 163, pl. 202.



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