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Dish with everted rim, the base with three spur marks. Decorated in red, green, blue and black enamels. In a central medallion flowers stemming from a rock at a lotus pond. On the well and the rim in Chinese kraak style eight wide panels with flower sprays alternating with antiquities, divided by narrow panels with ribboned emblems. The reverse with three sprays in blue and black enamels.
The lotus pond is a recurrent theme on Kraak wares. Its simplicity it is, however, typically Japanese. The painting is done in bright colours. Of the early enamels the use of overglaze blue is particularly fascinating as this enamel appeared only regularly on Chinese porcelain of the famille verte palette at the end of the 17th century. Its origins on Japanese early enamelled wares are not yet clear. This dish was acquired in Indonesia. A dish with a similar border in a somewhat different palette is in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
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