This kendi has a ribbed, flattened body and a large mammiform spout. It is covered with a honey-coloured yellow lead glaze. The mouth rim is bound in copper.
The green-glazed kendi with a globular body and mammiform spout was moulded in two parts, with the seam running across the base, the sides and the spout. It was also fired twice: the first time to mature the stoneware body, the second time to harden the bright-coloured glaze. The body is decorated with a relief of two dragons. Around the shoulders is a band of embossed lotus petals. Ref.: Singapore 1984, p. 25, col. pl. III c and p. 67, pl. 31; Adhyatman 1990, pp. 160–161, pl. 147; Khoo 1991, pp. 81–82, pls 100, 101 and 102.
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Guangdong stoneware with yellow lead glaze H 15.8 cm Ming dynasty, early 17th cent. Inv.-No. NO 1842, on loan from the OKS PROVENANCE: Acquired by Nanne Ottema from R. Buisman in 1943
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Guangdong stoneware with green lead glaze H 19.5 cm Ming dynasty, 1600–1640 Inv.-No. GRV 1950-137 PROVENANCE: Donated by the heirs of R. Verbeek, found in Indonesia Publ.: Harrisson 1995, p. 54, nos 68 a and b
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