* TO BE SOLD WITHOUT RESERVE * A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE ‘KRAAK’ STYLE CYLINDRICAL WATER CONTAINER, MIZUSASHI, MING DYNASTY, TIANQI PERIOD, 1621 - 1627 明天晵 青花松下高仕圖纹水指一件 The tapering sides rising to an incurved flat rim, painted around the exterior with a figure seated under a willow tree in a fenced garden, all within a river landscape, below a band of florets and trellis and above three applied animal mask feet, Japanese wood box, black lacquer cover (3) Height: 17cm Provenance: Mujintang Collection, purchased in Kyoto, 2015 Exhibited: Robert Bradlow Fine Art, Reflecting Nature, 17th Century Chinese Ceramics for the Japanese Market: Kosometsuke & Koake, Catalogue no.1. Condition Report The water container has fritting around three quarters of the inside edge of the rim, and some further smaller areas of fritting to the outside edge of the rim and to the raised band below the rim, some kiln grit adhered around the outside edge of the base and several circa 1cm vertical glaze firing lines around the interior at the luting line.