A Chinese blue and white ‘Kraak porselein ’ bottle vase. Ming Dynasty, Wanli Period, circa1590-1610. Photo Gibson Antiques

The slender pear-shaped bottle brightly painted in underglaze-blue with four moulded peach-shaped cartouches with stylised fruit and diaper work interspersed with four panels containing birds, flowers and fruit, the neck with precious objects suspended from cords within a ruyi and floral mon diaper work borders. Height: 27.5cm - Price 10 000 €

Compare to a similar high quality bottle in a private Dutch collection illustrated in M. Rinaldi, Kraak Porcelain, London 1989, p.170., pl.213.

Gibson Antiques will be exhibiting at the Maastricht Fine Art Open House 2012, which runs alongside TEFAF from the 15th to the 25th March 2012 between 11am and 6pm daily

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