A pair of blue and white Swatow dishes

16TH/17TH CENTURY

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A pair of blue and white Swatow dishes
16th/17th Century
Decorated in the 'kraak' style with a central foliate roundel showing two dragons pursuing the flaming pearl, the deep well with vertical panels of flowers below a Swastika border round the everted rim, all reserved on a wave-pattern ground (rim frittings, one rim crack)
39 cm diam. (2)

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