LATE 16TH CENTURY

Compare the very similar dish exhibited Swatow Wares from Seikado Collection, The Seikado Bunko Art Museum, 1997, Catalogue, no.45, p.49; a slightly smaller dish of this design is in the Muse Guimet, Paris, illustrated by M. Beurdeley, Porcelain of the East India Companies, 1962, fig.17, p.38; and a similar dish is illustrated by Barbara Harrison, Swatow, col. pl. 216