Dish, hard paste porcelain, fluted shape with scalloped rim, sand adhesions to the footrim and radial corrugations to the glaze on the base, decorated with blue painted deer in a landscape; not marked, made in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China, c1605-15
the decoration conforms to the 'kraak' style, named by the Dutch in reference to the ships known as 'carracks', in which Chinese export goods were carried during the period when the China trade was dominated by Portugal
sand adhering to the footrim and corrugations, or 'chatter' in the glaze are characteristic of Chinese porcelain of this period
the decoration conforms to the 'kraak' style, named by the Dutch in reference to the ships known as 'carracks', in which Chinese export goods were carried during the period when the China trade was dominated by Portugal
sand adhering to the footrim and corrugations, or 'chatter' in the glaze are characteristic of Chinese porcelain of this period
