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Details
- Other Title
- Swatow ware blue glazed bowl
- 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 slip decoration under blue glaze
- Dimensions
- 7.8 x 35.5 cm
- Signature & date
Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Dr Peter Elliott 1995
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 204.1995
- 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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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, 140 (colour illus.).
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