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Pear-shaped bottles with tapering neck and a garlic-shaped mouth. Around the mouth overlapping petals, from the neck downwards in a six panel division pearl strings, a ruyi border, maze diapers and flower sprays alternating with ribboned antiquities.
Pear-shaped bottles have been made during the whole production period of Kraak porcelain. The neck of this bottle is short in comparison to its body, a clue to a later date. Likewise, the decoration with a broad band at the base of the neck is considered to be a later decorative design. Bottles with this shape and decoration were part of the Hatcher cargo (c. 1643). As it is painted in a more careful manner and the colour is quite strong, it might be of a slightly earlier date.
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