1454 Lovely Late Ming Blue and White Klapmuts with a very interesting Ko-Akae addition

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Description:

1454 Lovely Late Ming Blue and White Klapmuts with a very interesting Ko-Akae addition
Period: 1600-1640
Diameter: 138mm approx
Code: 450
Provenance: From A Japanese collection

Reference:

Canepa, Teresa, and Katharine Butler. Leaping the Dragon Gate: The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth‑Century Chinese Porcelain. Bilingual ed. London: Paul Holberton Publishing (distributed by Yale University Press), November 2021. pp 94

A very interesting plate. This is a good example of a Late ming dish with added color decoration. The added colors are not necessary for the decoration. They are an adition to a complete scene. This type of plate also exists with Anhua instead of green decoration. This is similar to Amsterdam Bont. In this scene the added color figures and animals are to large for the original scene, creating a rather odd image.