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Dish with a flat, lobed rim, decorated in iron-red, and green and yellow enamels. In a central, bracketed medallion edged by various diapers separated by ruyi, a flower vase painted with lingzhi and containing flowering lotus. The vase placed in front of two pots on low garden tables with flowers growing from rocks. On the well and the rim, treated as a single space, eight ogival panels with fruits alternating with antiquities, separated by narrow panels with knotted ribbons and diapers. On the exterior similar panels with fruit sprays and lingzhi fungus.
This is to our knowledge the only Kraak dish decorated solely in enamels. The dish is carefully decorated with various types of fruits: the pomegranate, the lychee, the finger citrus and the peach. It can be dated to the middle of the 17th century based on the central design of a flower vase and the manner in which the peaches are rendered. These are similar to the ones on Kraak dishes found in the Hatcher wreck (c. 1643). This exceptional dish may have been intended for the Japanese market.
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