A rare blue and white Swatow dish
A rare blue and white Swatow dish

LATE 16/17TH CENTURY

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A rare blue and white Swatow dish
Late 16/17th Century
The central roundel painted with two dragons writhing around a flaming pearl below a border of fan-shaped panels enclosing horses galloping through fire scrolls, the rim with alternate medallions of dancing figures and Islamic inscriptions (God is health, God is healing) on a washed-blue wave-pattern ground
40.4 cm. diam.
Literature
Barbara Harrisson, Swatow in het Princessehof, Gemeentelijk Museum het Princessehof, Leeuwarden, 1979, p. 75, pl. 140

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