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二 21. Large Swatow deep circular dish with gently everted rim, painted in turquoise, black and iron-red enamel, the centre
十 with eight trigrams surrounding a yin yang symbol within a night scene of fishing boats above waves, beside mountains
一 and pavilions, all beneath the stars and the moon within iron-red rings, the cavetto painted with crabs, shrimp, fish,
lotus leaves, flowers and aquatic plants, beneath a further narrow border enclosing branches of bamboo and stylised
漳 flowers, the underside plain, the foot rim with sand grit.
州 39.3cm diameter.
窯 Pinghe County, Zhangzhou prefecture, Fujian province.
紅 Ming dynasty, circa 1600.
綠 • Formerly in a Japanese collection.
彩 • No other dishes with this combined design appear to be recorded.
帆 • A large dish with crabs and fish on the border encircling phoenix birds and flowers with a central double crane
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陰 is illustrated by Yoneyama Torataro in The Seikado Bunko Art Museum catalogue of Swatow Wares of the Seikado
陽 Collection, no. 47, p. 51; another with a fish and crab border encircling phoenix birds and flowers with a central
八 landscape medallion is illustrated by Ryoichi Fujioka and Hasuji Hasebe in Sekei Toji Zenshu, Ceramic Art of The
卦 World, Volume 14, Ming Dynasty, no. 247, p. 240.
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