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A polychrome Swatow dish for the Islamic market
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A polychrome Swatow dish for the Islamic market

16/17TH CENTURY

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A polychrome Swatow dish for the Islamic market
16/17th Century
Enamelled with a central medallion surrounded by smaller roundels enclosing Arabic inscriptions between two bands of further inscriptions, all below a double-line border in red at the rim, crack
34.5 cm. diam.
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Lot Essay

A similar dish with less elaborate inscription is illustrated in B. Harrisson, Swatow in het Princessehof, Leeuwaarden, 1979, p. 110-113, pl. 226, 227, 227a. The author states that the inscriptions read Islamic vows and the names of Mohammed and his disciples. Presumably the dishes were ordered for the promotion of trade in Islamic countries such as Indonesia.

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