A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE KRAAK PORCELAIN DISH WANLI 1573-1620

A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE KRAAK PORCELAIN DISH
WANLI 1573-1620

Brightly painted with two egrets and a flying duck amidst lotus, the border typically decorated with panels of leaves, fruits and precious things, a paper label for Brodie & Enid Lodge no.B2, 36.5cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Brodie & Enid Lodge, Flore House, Northamptonshire. The Brodie Lodge archive lists no.B2 as purchased from Rene de l'Hopital on the 26th February 1930 for œ1.8s. For details of this famous collection, cf. R Davids and D Jellinek Provenance p.298.