A SWATOW BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH painted with a central roundel containing a phoenix standing on one leg beside a peony tree on the left and bamboo on the right below the sun in a riverscape, all within a band of radiating alternating panels of flower-sprays and bamboo at the well and border (small foot chip), 16th/17th Century

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A SWATOW BLUE AND WHITE SAUCER DISH painted with a central roundel containing a phoenix standing on one leg beside a peony tree on the left and bamboo on the right below the sun in a riverscape, all within a band of radiating alternating panels of flower-sprays and bamboo at the well and border (small foot chip), 16th/17th Century
36.5cm. diam.

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For a similar example Cf. B. Harrisson, Swatow in het Princessehof p. 64 and 65 fig.98, 101, 105, 106

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