A large Chinese Swatow-type dish

A large Chinese Swatow-type dish, decorated red, green, turquoise and black with two arhats, a tiger and a dragon, the border with floral sprays divided by rocky islands, each with a pagoda, Fujian province late 16th / early 17th century, damaged and repaired, 39cm. From the collection of Professor D R Laurence MD. Provenance: purchased from R & G McPherson Antiques, London. Cf. John Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, N176, and Jorge Welsh, Zhangzhou Export Ceramics, p.155.