WANLI to CHONGZHEN 1573 – 1644 Swatow Ware
A Blue and White Ming Porcelain `Swatow` Ware Dish. Late Ming Dynasty, Wanli to Chongzhen Period, From the Kilns in Pinghe or Hua`an Kilns in Heping County, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province. Decorated with a Phoenix in a Landscape with a Kraak Inspired Panelled Border.
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- Condition
- Extensively crazed, one line is in fact a crack, rim chips.
- Size
- Diameter : 36 cm (14 inches)
- Provenance
- N/A
- Stock number
- 22134
- References
- For a Ming Swatow ware dish of this design see : Swatow (Barbara Harrison, Museum Het Princessehof,1979) pages 64, 54 and 66. Also see : Zhanzhou (Swatow) Ceramics, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries Found in Indonesia (Sumarah Adhyatman, The Ceramic Society of Indonesia,1999) page 85, plate 81. For a further example of this Ming Swatow design see our `Sold Items` stock number 13071.
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