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A LARGE CHINESE ZHANGZHOU ‘SPLIT PAGODA’ DISH
17TH CENTURY

The center is enameled in turquoise and black enamels with the ‘split pagoda’ scene, of a
pagoda parting to reveal a route to mountains and further pagodas in the distance. The well is
decorated with quatrefoil panels enclosing fgures hunting and fshing, separated by four seals
inscribed in iron-red.

15Ω in. (39.3 cm.) diam., wood box

$6,000-8,000

Swatow wares, made at kilns in south China near the port of Shantou (called Swatow by the Dutch)
was a coarse, utilitarian ware, often decorated after the ‘kraak porselein’ wares made at Jingdezhen
decorated with birds and fowers. A nearly identical dish in the British Museum is illustrated by J.
Harrison-Hall, Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 338,
II:164. Another nearly identical dish in the Percival David Collection is on exhibit at the British Museum,
PDF A709. Another example, painted in a slightly diferent style, is illustrated by B. Harrison, Swatow
Relating to Museum Het Princessehof, Leeuwarden, 1979, p. 109, no. 218.
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