MING DYNASTY, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A LARGE ZHANGZHOU (SWATOW) SLIP-DECORATED BOWL
MING DYNASTY, LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY
With deep sides, the center of the interior decorated with a flowering stalk bearing three blossoms amidst feathery leaves, below alternating foliate sprays in the cavetto and a decorative border on the everted rim, all in white slip applied in dots, thin lines and wash on a soft blue ground which continues onto the exterior
15¾ in. (39.5 cm.) diam.

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Lot Essay

A very similar dish is in the British Museum (see J. Harrison-Hall, Ming Ceramics, London, 2001, p. 347, no. 11:187); and a slightly smaller dish (38.1 cm.) is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1977, vol. 11, fig. 100.

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