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Jan Menze van Diepen Stichting
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Large Zhangzhou dish on footring, narrow flat rim. Decorated in underglaze blue. In the centre a scalloped medallion with two dragons chasing a flaming pearl between cloud motifs. The rim and sides are divided into wide panels with flowering plants alternating with narrow panels with a fish-scale pattern and a small medallion with a little flower. The outside with two scrolls. Greyish-white crackled glaze. Kiln-sand adhering to the footring. The composition of this dish follows that of kraak porcelain with its alternating wide and narrow panels on the rim and sides and the panels filled with flower sprays. However, the central motif of two dragons is rarely seen on kraak ware and is derived from export porcelain of the second half of the 16th century.

Large Swatow dish on footring, narrow flat rim. Decorated in underglaze blue. In the centre a scalloped medallion with two dragons chasing a flaming pearl between cloud motifs. The rim and sides are divided into wide panels with flowering plants alternating with narrow panels with a fish-scale pattern and a small medallion with a little flower. The outside with two scrolls. Greyish-white crackled glaze. Kiln-sand adhering to the footring. The composition of this dish follows that of kraak porcelain with its alternating wide and narrow panels on the rim and sides and the panels filled with flower sprays. However, the central motif of two dragons is rarely seen on kraak ware and is derived from export porcelain of the second half of the 16th century.

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JMD-P-1994
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