Asian Ceramics

JIA JING PLATE

Dish with ducks in a pond

1525-1550

China, Jindezhen. Diameter: 30,8 cm, height: 5.5 cm.

These dishes are seen by Maura Rinaldi as predecessors of the so-called "kraak ware". They came to Europe in Portugese 'caraques'.

Maura Rinaldi: Kraakporselein, a Moment in the History of Trade. London, 1989. Compare plate 52 pp 77 . Regina Krahl: Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, II, London, 1986 compare : plate 841, pp 609.

Ex-collection Bomers-Marres.