The dish is decorated to the centre with two long-tailed birds in flight amongst chrysanthemums, the cavetto painted with two dragons chasing flaming pearls amongst cloud scrolls and lingzhi fungus.
15 in. (38 cm.) diam.

Acquired in the UK over the past 60 years.

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Zhangzhou ware, also referred to as Swatow ware, was made at kilns in south China near the port of Shantou (called Swatow by the Dutch). It was a coarse, utilitarian ware often decorated with birds and flowers. A comparable dish from the Franks collection is illustrated by Jessica Harrison-Hall in Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, no.11:164, p. 338.