A Chinese blue-ground slip-decorated Zhangzhou ‘Swatow’ dish

Reference: ART1004304

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.