LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

Details

A Swatow blue and white dish
Late 16th/early 17th Century
Decorated in white slip on a soft blue ground with three chrysanthemum heads among feathery foliage, rim chips and cracks
39 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

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

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