Live Auction 2818European Noble and Private Collections
A Chinese late Ming blue and white 'kraak porselein' charger
Lot 214 Morning Session
Wednesday 1 april 2009, 10.30 AM
(Lots 214-406)

The property of count and countess van Limburg Stirum - Luden
(lots 214-273)

A Chinese late Ming blue and white 'kraak porselein' charger

CIRCA 1595-1610

Closed1 April 2009

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EUR 11,250

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A Chinese late Ming blue and white 'kraak porselein' charger
Circa 1595-1610
Painted with a central star-shaped panel of a crouching tiger amongst sprays of peony and prunus, within border panels of chrysanthemum sprays alternating with birds perched on branches of pomegranates, hairline rim crack and related chip
46.9 cm. diam.

Specialist note

For other 'Kraak' examples decorated with tigers, see M. Rinaldi, Kraak porcelain, London, 1989, pl. 196 and 103; and C.J.A. Jörg and J. van Campen, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, p. 63, pl. 47b.