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A LARGE CHINESE ‘SWATOW’ DISH A MASSIVE CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE BOWL
C.1600 19 CENTURY
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The deep body rising from a tapering foot to an everted rim, painted in The compressed circular body decorated with four variously shaped panels
turquoise and black enamels with the Eight Trigrams encircling a yin-yang enclosing birds and insects amidst rockwork, lotus, chrysanthemum and other
symbol, the central medallion surrounded by a scene of fishing boats sailing flowers, all reserved on a pale yellow ground decorated with peony blooms
by mountains under a starry night sky, with fish, crabs and crustacea amidst and scrolling leaves, the base with an old paper label and three character
aquatic plants to the cavetto, the designs divided by simple iron-red bands, mark reading fu jin de, 43cm dia.
39.3cm.
£2,000-3,000
£3,000-4,000
Provenance: formerly a Japanese private collection.
Cf. R Fujioka and H Hasebe, Sekai Toji Zenshu, Ceramic Art of the World, vol.14,
p.240, no.247 for a related dish with a fish and crab border surrounding phoenix
and a central landscape scene; see also T Yoneyama, The Seikado Bunko Art
Museum Catalogue of Swatow Wares of the Seikado Collection, p.51, no.47 for
another dish with a fish and crab border.

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