Dutch Delftware Remake of Wanli Ming Kraak Charger Ducks, ca 1900

A very nicely potted and painted kraak plate of a desirable cobalt blue! Stunning piece with beautiful and rare scene. Absolute top Quality kraak ware Condition some fritting to r...

A very nicely potted and painted kraak plate of a desirable cobalt blue! Stunning piece with beautiful scene of deers in a landscape. Absolute top Quality kraak ware Condition 1 fir...

A very nicely potted and painted kraak plate of a desirable cobalt blue! Stunning piece with beautiful scene of deers in a landscape. Absolute top Quality kraak ware Condition some...

Large late Ming dynasty Wanli period blue and white kraak ware export porcelain deep charger. The centre medaillon is unusually painted with 5 cakras around a flaming scroll forming a five-patelled motif resembling a large flaming wheel. This Buddhist motif may have a central Asian origin. The underside is divided into panels. See Rinaldi, page 95 for a similar dish. CAKRAS . Literally meaning a circle, wheel, or discus, the Sanskrit term cakra plays a key role in both Hindu and Buddhist traditions, particularly in their more esoteric Tantric forms. The term has several uses in various forms of yogic and Tantric practice. Thus cakra may refer to the circle of worship in which a particular ritual is conducted—for example, the highly esoteric cakra pūjā of Hindu Tantric rituals, usually performed in the dead of night in a cremation ground, involving practices that deliberately violate traditional laws of class distinctions and purity. Cakras may also refer to circular diagrams used in meditation and the worship of such specific deities as the famous Śri Cakras or Śri Yantra...

Kraak type porcelain bowl. It has polylobed border and it is painted in blue. It features decorations with birds, flowers and ornamental rocks within alternating reserves of tassels that descend from “ruyi”. The interior is delicately decorated with panels of flowers...

Rare and remarkable group of five Dutch 18th century Delftware pieces, three lidded urns, and two vases crafted in terra cotta and polychrome d...

Dutch Arnhem Holland "Elrakka" Pottery, ca 1915 2 vases from the Arnhemsche Fayence factory by the Vet brothers, The Netherlands. Ca. 1915. The set is colored in green, brown, blue and yellow with black lines with craquelure. 1 vase has craquelure line Details , view in the pictures with a magnifying glass. Klaas and Jacob Vet open their pottery factory in Purmerend in 1903. They already had the necessary ceramic experience. Klaas acquired this as a modeller at Plateelbakkerij De Distel...

Dutch Arnhem Holland "Elrakka" Pottery, ca 1915 2 equal long neck vases and a round jug from the Arnhemsche Fayence factory by the Vet brothers, The Netherlands. Ca. 1915. The set is colored in green, brown, blue and yellow with black lines with craquelure. 1 vase has thickening of glaze on the edge and the other viewed with a magnifying glass, probably a miniscule chip. This has been added via photo (enlarged with a loupe) Klaas and Jacob Vet open their pottery factory in Purmerend in 1903. They already had the necessary ceramic experience. Klaas acquired this as a modeller at Plateelbakkerij De Distel...