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Details
- Other Title
- Large dish, deer in landscape design
- Place where the work was made
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China
- Period
- Ming dynasty 1368 - 1644 → China
- Date
- circa 1600
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- porcelain with underglaze blue decoration
- Dimensions
- 8.0 x 39.0 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mr F. Storch 1988
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 397.1988
- Copyright
- Artist information
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Swatow ware
Works in the collection
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About
Swatow refers to a large family of coarse provincial porcelains, often with vigorously painted decoration. They were produced in imitation of Kraak porcelains in a number of kilns not far from the port of Shantou (Swatow in Dutch records) in Guangdong province in southern China. Swatow wares are roughly made, often with grit adhering to their foot rims, while their decorations have the freedom and verve characteristic of late Ming ceramics. They have been found along international trade routes of the late 1500s and 1600s. Most typical of Swatow wares are the large dishes, decorated in blue-and-white, polychrome enamels and, less commonly, monochrome colours over a slip decoration.
'Swatow wares', The Asian Collections, AGNSW, 2003, pg.140.
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Places
Where the work was made
China
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Exhibition history
Shown in 1 exhibition
Great gifts, great patrons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 17 Aug 1994–19 Oct 1994
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Bibliography
Referenced in 1 publication
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Export Ceramics', Sydney, 2003, 141 (colour illus.).
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