Lot Essay
A very similar example to the second 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; and B. Gyllensvärd, op.cit., p.45, no.56b. See also C. Sheaf and R. Kilburn, op.cit., pl.116 and p.77 for a brown-ground dish slip-decorated with a dragon, from The Asian Junk Cargo, c.1643 where the authors mention that this technique was also used on blue-glazed wares, and that these dishes, which were popular in the 17th century, were made for export to South East Asia.