Lot Essay
A very similar example was exhibited in South-East Asian and Chinese Trade Pottery, 1979, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Catalogue, no.152. For other blue-ground slip-decorated dishes, see Gemeentelijk Museum het Princessehof Leeuwarden, Swatow, Catalogue, p.42, no.S221; and see L. Vok, Seladon, Swatow, Blauweiss, no.148 and colour plate. 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, ca. 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.
A similar dish was sold in our Rooms in London, 7 April 1997, lot 14
A similar dish was sold in our Rooms in London, 7 April 1997, lot 14