- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Bowl with everted flattened rim.
Clay: porcelain
Glaze: opaque white, cobalt-tinted blue, and clear glazes
Decoration: in white slip and cobalt and iron pigments, of a pair of dragons chasing a flaming pearl amidst clouds in the bottom, with two alternating plant motifs around the cavetto, and key-fret pattern on the rim.
- Published References
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- Sumarah Adhyatman. Zhangzhou (Swatow) Ceramics: Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries Found in Indonesia. Jakarta, Indonesia. .
- Seikado Bunko Art Museum. Seikado zo Gosu akae meihin zuroku [Swatow Wares from the Seikado Collection]. Tokyo. .
- Saito Kikutaro. Gosu aka-e, nankin aka-e [Gosu Polychrome and Nanjing Polychrome]. Toji taikei, vol. 45 Tokyo. .
- Regina Krahl. Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul: A Complete Catalogue. 3 vols New York and London. vol. 2.
- Nezu Institute of Fine Arts. Kanan no yakimono: Ki-Seto, Oribe, Aode Ko-Kutani no genryu wo motomete [Ceramics of South China: Identifying the Origins of Yellow Seto, Oribe, and Aode Ko-Kutani Wares]. Kansho Shirizu, vol. 1 Tokyo. .
- Idemitsu Museum of Arts. Ozara no jidai ten: Utage no utsuwa [The Age of Oversized Dishes and Banqueting in Japan]. Exh. cat. Tokyo. .
- Hessel Miedema. Swatow: Catalogus. Leeuwarden. .
- Barbara V. Harrisson. Later Ceramics in South-East Asia: Oxford in Asia Studies in Ceramics. Oxford in Asia Studies in Ceramics Kuala Lumpur. .
- Barbara V. Harrisson. Swatow in Het Princessehof: The Analysis of a Museum Collection of Chinese Trade Wares from Indonesia. Leeuwarden. .
- Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum. Gosu aka-e, gosu sometsuke, mochibana-de: Suwatou uea no sekai [Swatow Ware]. Seto. .
- Louise Allison Cort. Letter to the Editor., October, 2007. pp. 5-6.
- Collection Area(s)
- Chinese Art
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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