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16TH CENTURY
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Two polychrome Swatow dishes
16th Century
The first decorated to the centre in turquoise and black with a dragon emerging from crested waves, surrounded by floral sprays and cartouches reserved on a lozenge-pattern ground in iron-red and green, 23.7 cm. diam.; and a dish painted to the centre with two phoenix among peony blooms and foliage, 26.5 cm. diam. (one with a restuck chip) (2)
16th Century
The first decorated to the centre in turquoise and black with a dragon emerging from crested waves, surrounded by floral sprays and cartouches reserved on a lozenge-pattern ground in iron-red and green, 23.7 cm. diam.; and a dish painted to the centre with two phoenix among peony blooms and foliage, 26.5 cm. diam. (one with a restuck chip) (2)