A Chinese Export Porcelain Blue and White Kraak Style Bowl

18th century, porcelain bowl with scalloped rim, hand painted in underglaze blue with elegant female ladies alternating with large floral peony blooms within radiating petal registers surrounding a central image of a seated lady by a lotus flower arrangement on raised stand, marked with a single character within two blue circles to the underside.

1 5/8 in., 6 3/4 in. diameter

Collection of David C. Lindeman, Fearrington Village, North Carolina

Chips to rim; two hairline cracks to rim.