A large Swatow blue and white dish

LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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A large Swatow blue and white dish
Late 16th/early 17th Century
Decorated in white slip on a soft blue ground with three bold chrysanthemum heads amongst feathery foliage, the everted rim with a swirling line of foliage between small flower-heads (rim chips, crack and frittings)
38 cm diam.

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

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