Lot 56

A very good blue and white Kraak porcelain charger, the center decorated with a bird on the ground below a vase of flowers and two butterflies, the flat rim is decorated with alternating panels of flowers and scenes of figures in a landscape. The reverse with seven floral panels separating cartouches. For a similar charger, see: Maura Rinaldi, 'Kraak Porcelain - A Moment in the History of Trade', London, Bamboo Publishing, 1989, Page 112, Plate 110. Quite typical for this type of border is the use of Transitional style motifs and it may be considered one of the earliest types of Transitional porcelain. Another similar example is in The Royal Dresden Porcelain Collection: "Dish. Inv. no. PO 1270." The Royal Dresden Porcelain Collection. Porzellansammlung, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden: www.doi.org/10.58749/skd.ps.2024.rpc.c1.157851 (accessed 26 May 2025). China, Early Transitional period, ca. 1635-1650 -D. 32 cm, well painted with a good vibrant cobalt blue colour, hairline crack-