A CHINESE SWATOW DISH FOR THE ARABIC MARKET

WANLI 1573-1620

Painted in red and green enamels with eight circular medallions, with extracts of the Quran surrounding a larger medallion with further calligraphy, a Japanese wood box, 37.5cm. (3)

Cf. S Adhyatman, Zhangzhou (Swatow) Ceramics, Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries Found in Indonesia, p.60, pl.216; see also B Harrison, Swatow, Museum Het Princessehof, p.234, pl.205.