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A large Chinese porcelain bowl decorated in the typical Transitional style, the interior with with a central scene depicting the spinner motif, the exterior with large panels, bordered by bands of scroll-work and decorated within alternately with scenes of either figures in conversation or walking by a river with European houses in the background and foreground and ducks on the water or with scenes of a boy making an offering to a robed gentleman, the offering different in each version of the scene, the large panels divided by narrow panels decorated with single Dutch flowers, tulips or Iznik style flowers, the scenes repeated on the interior of the bowl. An identical bowl is in the Arnhem Museum, no. GM 05454 and in the Troesch collection, Switzerland. Lit. Maura Rinaldi, Kraak Porcelain - A moment in the history of trade, Bamboo Publishing, London, 1989, Page 163, Plate 202. China, Chongzheng period (1635-1650) -H. 16,5 cm, D. 37,55 cm, graze frits to the rim, hairline crack-