Dish
Category
Ceramics
Date
c. 1600
Materials
Porcelain, cobalt
Measurements
310 mm (Diameter)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
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Belton House, Lincolnshire
NT 433375
Summary
Dish, porcelain, round, with upwardly curving sides, an everting rim, the edge of the rim lobed and pointed, made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, Wanli period (1573–1619), c. 1600, decorated in underglaze blue in the kraak style with a central vignette of a pair of deer among trees on the edge of water surrounded by a band of five lobed an pointed cartouches with flowers and auspicious objects, separated by stylised pendants and with areas of geometric patterning (interlocking circles, stylised ‘waves’ and Y-shaped diaper pattern) around the rim.
Full description
The term kraak refers to the decoration of porcelain objects originally produced in China for the Portuguese. It is probably a Dutch phonetic copy of the Portuguese word caracca, referring to the type of ship used for trade with East Asia (Kerr and Mengoni 2011).
Provenance
Purchased by the National Trust with support from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, 1984.
References
Kerr and Mengoni 2011: Rose Kerr and Luisa E. Mengoni, Chinese Export Ceramics, London, 2011, p. 22