Lot 374. Six Chinese Kraak-style dishes and one large Kraak-style dish, Ming dynasty, circa 1640. Estimate 2,000 — 3,000 GBP. Photo Sotheby's.

the larger dish painted to the central roundel with ducks on a promontory, below radiating panels of birds amongst chrysanthemum, pomegranate and lychee on the sloping rim, the smaller dishes similar painted with a bird to the centre amongst flowers with similar radiating floral panels - Quantité: 7 - the larger dish 34.5cm., 13 1/2 in. 

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE MR. AND MRS. SMIDT VAN GELDER, NÉE BARONESS VAN ZUYLEN VAN NIJEVELT

Provenance:  The Hatcher Collection; sold Christie's Amsterdam March 1984; the charger: February 1985