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black outlines and green or turquoise covers is generally poor or mismatched. She argues, that either different
decorators working on different skills and speed did the painting or stencils were used to cover the black
outlines.

Motifs on Zhangzhou red and green wares are of the familiar kind – animals, birds and flowers; they have often
equivalents in blue and white. Motifs painted in turquoise, however, are frequently new.

One of the large dishes in the Princessehof collection is painted with a elegant lady in a dancing pose,
surrounded by flowers and auspicious objects (OKS 1868-169). Like the other dish of this type, decorated with
a strange looking lion, (GRV 1929-338), it is made of pure white porcelain, quite different from the coarse
material Zhangzhou is normally made of. The backsides are plain.
Zhangzhou ware of this type was probably produced for the Japanese market, where – because of its eccentric
qualities - it was appreciated by Japanese tea masters.

Ref.: Seikado 1997; Canepa 2006; Stroeber 2011;Sargent 2012; Stroeber 2013

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