Kraak Porcelain wares 1570-1645 - Dishes - Page 1

Object 2012561

Dish

China

1590-1610

Height 29 mm (1.14 inch), diameter of rim 211 mm (8.31 inch), diameter of footring 108 mm (4.25 inch), weight 330 grams (11.64 ounce (oz.))

Dish on footring, flat rim. Decorated in underglaze blue with a bird perched on a rock with a flowering peony tree and an insect in flight in a central medallion enclosed by a ruyi-heads pattern border. The sides are undecorated. On the rim stylized cranes flying amongst swirling clouds alternating with fruiting peach sprays. On the exterior rim four elongated grasses. On the base two concentric lines in underglaze blue. Coarse sand from the kiln adheres to the base and some areas of the footring.

This type of this dish is recorded in Maura Rinaldi's book 'Kraak Porcelain. A moment in the history of trade' as a shallow dish with a flat rim. The decoration on the border appears to be rare among the kraak porcelain assortment and is not published by Rinaldi. The dish can be dated to around 1590-1610.

For a closely related border to that enclosing the central medallion of the dish, formed by a narrow band of alternating blue and white squares and a band of ruyi-heads, please see:

Kraak Porcelain. The rise of global trade in the late 16th and early 17th centuries, (T. Canepa, L. Vinhais and Jorge Welsh Oriental Porcelain & Works of Art, London/Lisbon, 2008), pp.100-101, cat. 5)

Condition: A firing flaw to the footring, some glaze rough spots, a shallow glaze chip and a chip with a short, connected hairline all to the rim.

Reference:

Welsh 2008, cat. 5

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