16/17TH CENTURY
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Three Swatow blue and white deep dishes,
16/17th Century
Two dishes painted similarly with a couple of deer reclining under a pine-tree, surrounded at the well with birds and insects flying between pine, bamboo and lotus below a scrolling meander of lotus-heads at the everted rim (cracks and repair), 38 and 39cm. diam.; and a larger dish painted in greyish-blue tone with two deer on a river bank, the everted rim decorated with fishing boats between pavilions built on rocks (rim chips), 41.5cm. diam. (3)
16/17th Century
Two dishes painted similarly with a couple of deer reclining under a pine-tree, surrounded at the well with birds and insects flying between pine, bamboo and lotus below a scrolling meander of lotus-heads at the everted rim (cracks and repair), 38 and 39cm. diam.; and a larger dish painted in greyish-blue tone with two deer on a river bank, the everted rim decorated with fishing boats between pavilions built on rocks (rim chips), 41.5cm. diam. (3)