A blue and white Kraak bottle vase. Wanli period (1572-1620) - image-1

Lot 132 Dα

A blue and white Kraak bottle vase. Wanli period (1572-1620)

Auction 1179 - overview Cologne
24.06.2021, 11:00 - Asiatische Kunst
Estimate: 3.000 € - 5.000 €
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A blue and white Kraak bottle vase. Wanli period (1572-1620)

A pear-shaped bottle vase with slender neck and slightly everted rim, decorated in underglaze-blue with six vertical panels of horses jumping or flying over waves alternated with floral panels below a band of interlocked ruyi heads and tasseled beaded pendants.
Height 28 cm

明萬歷 青花開光花鳥奔馬膽瓶

來源：德國魯爾​區私人收藏，藏品集於二十世紀六十年代，1966年購於德國 敘爾特​島 China-Bohlken 藝術行，此後由家族傳承

Provenance

Private collection, Ruhr area, Germany, assembled in the 1960s, acquired at China-Bohlken, Westerland, in the year 1966, and thence in the family by descent

Literature

Compare Maura Rinaldi, Kraak Porcelain, A Moment in the History of Trade Hardcover, London 1989, p. 167