TWO LARGE SWATOW BLUE AND WHITE DEEP DISHES

LATE 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY

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TWO LARGE SWATOW BLUE AND WHITE DEEP DISHES
late 16th/early 17th century
One painted at the centre with two dragons confronted around a pearl amongst fire-scrolls within an octafoil panel reserved on a scale-pattern ground, below eight floral lappet-shaped panels on the sides; the other decorated in white slip on a soft blue ground with three bold chrysanthemum heads amongst feathery foliage, both fritted
both about 15¼in. (38.5cm.) diam. (2)

拍品專文

A very similar example to the second dish was exhibited, South-East Asian and Chinese Trade Pottery, 1979, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Catalogue, no.152. For other similar blue-ground slip-decorated dishes, see I. Vok, Seladon, Swatow, Blauweiss, no.148 and colour plate; and B. Gyllensvärd, op.cit., p.45, no.56b. 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, c.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.