Chinese late Ming blue and white porcelain kraak bowl

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A very fine Chinese late Ming blue and white porcelain kraak bowl delicately painted in the six exterior moulded panels in excellent blue with a variety of alternating lanterns and vases of flowers, each separated by narrow formal vertical strips, the well of the interior with a roundel containing a bird on a rock beneath the sun below panels of various plants and butterflies, each panel separated as on the exterior
12cm diameter
Wanli circa 1580
*ex Marchant (label)

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