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A LARGE ZHANGZHOU BLACK AND TURQUOISE-ENAMELED ARABIC-INSCRIBED
DISH

LATE MING DYNASTY, LATE 16TH-EARLY 17TH CENTURY
The dish is decorated on the interior with a central roundel encircled by eight smaller roundels containing
Arabic inscriptions, below further inscriptions at the rim. The inscriptions include verses from the Qur’an
and religious invocations in Arabic and are written in black enamel highlighted by turquoise glaze.
17¡ in. (36.5 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

$10,000-15,000

Compare a similar dish illustrated in Chinese Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Japan, 1987, p. 881.
A related dish, identifed as ‘Swatow’ ware (35.5 cm. diam.), is illustrated by R. Krahl and J. Ayers in
Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. II, London, 1986, p. 895, and col. pl. p. 480,
no. 1939, where the inscriptions are identifed as Arabic quotations from the Qur’an, and the poem is
also translated. Compare, also, a related dish sold at Christie’s New York, 17-18 March 2016, lot 1579.
晚明十六世紀末/十七世紀初 漳州窯紅綠彩阿拉伯文大盤

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