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The dish is decorated in white slip reserved on the pale blue ground with three large blooms amidst tendrils. The well is decorated with firework-like flowering plants.
Catalogue notes:
Compare a very similar dish sold at Christie's New York, 19 March 2008, Lot 589.
The designation 'Swatow' for wares made for Southeast Asian export, comes from the name of the northern-Guangdong port of Zhantou. However, this particular type of dish with slip decoration were actually made in Fujian.
Condition: There is a hairline to the rim (approx. 12 cm. long), and a section restuck to the rim with an associated loss (approx. 6 cm. wide) a further small chip to the underside of the rim.
There is surface wear consistent with age.
Origin: China
Period: 16th-17th century
Sizes: 9.20 cm. H x 39.70 cm. diameter
3.62 in. H x 15.63 in. diameter