Large Kraak Bowl
Large Kraak Bowl
2673
A large blue and white Kraak porcelain bowl decorated to the centre with a lotus plant surrounded by sprigs of flowering blossom, the well and border with panels of flowers. Birds and branches to the back.
Condition: very good. Firing crack of circa 1 cm from rim and a hairline of circa 1 cm extended from the firing crack, minute rim frits, otherwise fine: no chips or restorations.
Provenance: from a private UK collection.
For an almost identical example in the collection of the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden, see Kraak Porcelain by Maura Rinaldi, p 126.
Wanli period (1573-1619).
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