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Blue and white 'Swatow' dish
Blue and white 'Swatow' dish
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Blue and white 'Swatow' dish, Zhangzhou kilns Ming dynasty, 2nd half of 16th century
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Blue and white 'Swatow' dish
Record number
BATEA : 357
Simple name
dish
Classified name
ceramic; porcelain; blue and white; dish; landscape; Ming; Swatow, Pinghe; Zhangzhou birds; flowers; China; insect; 16th century;
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A blue and white dish painted in the centre with birds and trees in a rocky landscape below a reserved band of flowers, plants and insects. The foliated rim has a band of fish scale pattern alternating with reserved cartouches of single flowers.
Description material
porcelain
Description condition
Small chips at rim Many manufacturing flaws in glaze Concretion on base Adhesive labels x 2 (2006)
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white
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blue
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40.2 cm
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1550 = 1600
Production period
Ming
Production place
China
Production site name
Ping he kiln, Fujian province
Production notes
Brian describes this as belonging to Kraak group 2 and dates it 1560=1580, accordingly. Note however the inclusion in the cavetto, which on the Group 2 of the Kraak examples is almost always undecorated, of bamboo, prunus and Note also the sand adhesions to the base and the waxy white glaze both the latter typical of the so-called Swatow pieces. Also to be noted on this dish is the inclusion of a Chinese surname (? Lam) in the underglaze blue decoration here; This is unlikely to have been the surname of the potter but is more likely to be that of the family who ordered the piece or joined in the communal firing, as was frequent the case at the Jian kilns. BSM. End of Entry.
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