Plate with vase of flowers
Most of the porcelain made for export to Europe in the late sixteenth and first half of the seventeenth century was blue-and-white. This is an extremely rare example of kraak ware painted using colored enamels.
Credit: GIft of David Griffin, 2018
Mid-17th century
Porcelain painted with colored enamels over transparent glaze (jingdezhen ware)
3.8in
2018.656
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019