A LARGE MING DYNASTY SWATOW WHITE-GLAZED AND ENGRAVED DISH 17th century
46 cm diam The whole exterior surface finely engraved with an elegant lotus scrolls decoration under a blue-whitish glaze.
Provenance: Acquired before 1975.
Similar Swatow dishes are in the Princessehof Museum in Leeuwarden (see B. Harrison, Swatow in het Princessehof. The Analysis of a Museum Collection of Chinese Trade Wares from Indonesia, Leeuwarden 1979, p. 19); in the collection of the Topkapi Museum in Istanbul (see R. Krahl - J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, 3 voll., London 1986: II, p. 895, n. 1938); in the Seikado Bunko Art Museum (see Swatow Wares from the Seikado Collection, Tokyo 1997, p. 63, n. 64); in the Baur Foundation, Geneve (see M. Crick, Chinese Trade Ceramics for South-East Asia from the 1st to the 17th Century. Collection of Ambassador and Mrs Charles Müller, Milan 2010, n. 262).