| Objectnumber | | 1967.0459 |  | | Style/decoration | | Kraak porcelain | | | Material | | Porcelain | | | Material description | | Underglaze blue | | | Dynasty | | Wanli | | | Country | | China | | | Period | | c 1595 - 1600 | | | Dimensions | | height 3,5 cm, diameter rim 20,3 cm, diameter footring 12,9 cm | | | Inscription/marks | | In the centre of the base a stork standing on arcing lines, looking to its left, two underglaze-blue water lilies by its feet. | | | Institution | | Groninger Museum | | | Source | | Acquisition | | | Literature | | Kraak porcelain : a moment in the history of trade / M. Rinaldi. - Londen, 1989. - pl. 266 | | | Description | |
Small round dish on a short, wide footring, a relatively thick flat base and a scalloped rim. Decorated in soft underglaze blue. On the inside rim a rock, a grasshopper and three flowering plants. A double circle between the rim and the central decoration. In the centre a rocky landscape with a river and trees, a bald man with a drooping moustache and wearing long pleated robes seated in the right foreground. He holds a scroll in his left hand. Ribbons and writing utensils hang from his sash. On the outside rim two flowering reeds in soft underglaze blue.
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