A VERY LARGE AND RARE KRAAK DEEP ‚TAOTIE‘ AND CHRYSANTHEMUM CHARGER

Estimated Value:

2.500 € - 3.500 €

Result:

7.122 € incl. Premium and VAT

Description:

China, Wanli period
D. 51,5 cm
The central roundel decorated with a jardinière of chrysanthemum, below shaped panels in the deep well containing buddhistic symbols, the everted shaped rim with taotie masks divided by trellis ground lappets reserved with flower-heads.
Collection Jean Hougron (1923-2001), Paris, acquired to records at Barbier in Paris in 1988
See The Oriental Ceramic Society Newsletter 29, 2021, Liu Zhaohui ‚A Further Discussion of Kraak Porcelain: Focusing on the Domestic Market in China‘ where the author notes the following: ‚ In conclusion, our analysis shows that there was a circulation of kraak porcelain as a commodity in the Chinese domestic market from the Wanli through to the Kangxi periods. Such porcelains were consumed by civilians, scholar elites, high local officials and Ming princes and their dependents. Special regard must also be paid to the kraak porcelains unearthed in the Forbidden City and found in the former collection of the Qing imperial court, along with those with imperial reign marks. These finds indicate that kraak porcelain might have been used in the imperial court, and that it is possible that they were produced in the imperial kilns. In terms of use and function, kraak porcelain could be accommodated for daily use, funerals and, possibly, bestowed as royal gifts.‘. For more information on this subject, see the article by the author, ‘Re-examining Kraak Ware from the Perspective of the Chinese Consumer Market’, published in National Palace Museum Monthly of Chinese Art, no. 448, July 2020, pp. 88-103. A similar altough much smaller charger was included in the sale Christie's, Amsterdam, 1.7.2009 ‚The J.V.N. Van Achterbergh Collection‘ purchased from Fa.A.C. Beeling & Zn., Leeuwarden, The Netherlands. See also a smaller plate oft hat type preserved in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, published Ayers/ Krahl ‚Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum Istanbul‘, vol. II, no. 1481, p. 776 - Rim fritted

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