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wanli blue and white kraak dish
Ming blue and white kraak dish painted to the center with a star shaped panel enclosed by a bracket shaped trellis pattern border showing a goose in flight above a pair of geese on a riverbank with lotus plants; reserved on a geometric pattern grounds the well and the rim painted with alternated petal shaped panels enclosing peach stems and auspicious symbols below a wavy rim Ming dynaty(1368 1644) Wanli reign(1573 1619). two hairlines one of them with associated chip rim fritting and firing imperfections Diameter 11 1/2 inch Height 1 7/8inch weight 0.710kg
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