Two blue and white Swatow saucer-dishes

16TH CENTURY

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Two blue and white Swatow saucer-dishes
16th Century
Both freely painted with a central roundel enclosing a Buddhistic lion, one encircled on the well with flower stems below a criss-cross pattern border, the other with trailing foliage below a bird and cloud pattern band on the everted rim (one with restoration and slight polishing to the rim, the other with small rim chips)
36.5 cm and 38.5 cm diam. (2)

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