A large Swatow deep dish

LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A large Swatow deep dish
Late 16th/early 17th Century
Decorated in white slip on a soft blue ground with three bold chrysanthemum heads amongst feathery foliage, the deep well with two plants outlined with dots between scrollwork, the everted rim surrounded by a floral meander (rim frits and small chips)
39.4 cm. diam.

Lot Essay

A similar dish was exhibited, South-East Asian and Chinese Trade Pottery, 1979, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Catalogue, no. 152. For other similar blue-ground slip-decorated dishes, see I. Vok, Seladon, Swatow, Blauweiss, no. 148 and colour plate.

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