Antique Chinese Ming Swatow Zhangzhou Polychrome Double Phoenix Dish 16-17C

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Condition Report: Craquele: Size: 37.2cm

A large Chinese Zhangzhou export porcelain dish, traditionally known as Swatow ware, from Fujian province, late Ming dynasty, late 16th to early 17th century.

Two long-tailed phoenixes in flight circle an iron-red floral medallion. The birds are painted in turquoise enamel with fine black detailing. Four shaped panels around the sides enclose smaller birds among flowering branches, alternating with red roundels on a finely hatched floral ground. A narrow turquoise-and-black geometric band frames the rim. The exterior is undecorated, with kiln grit adhering to the footrim.

For a close comparison in both design and scale, see Christie’s, Two Chinese Swatow Polychrome Dishes, lot 446, which includes a 37.4 cm dish with phoenixes around a central flowerhead and a bird-and-flower border.

Dimensions
37.3 cm diameter × 8 cm high (14.69 × 3.15 in).

Condition
One chip to the underside of the rim, glaze crazing and areas of enamel wear, particularly to the turquoise phoenixes. Please see the photographs.

Literature and Comparisons

• Christie’s, lot 446, Two Chinese Swatow Polychrome Dishes. The 37.4 cm dish in this lot is a close comparison in both composition and size, with phoenixes circling a central flowerhead and a bird-and-flower border.
• Eva Ströber, Zhangzhou or Swatow: The Collection of Zhangzhou Ware at the Princessehof Museum, pp. 22 and 26–27. Discusses the often-crazed creamy-white glaze and the use of turquoise, iron-red and green enamels with black outlines.
• Teresa Canepa, Zhangzhou Export Ceramics: The So-Called Swatow Wares, edited by Jorge Welsh, 2006. An exhibition catalogue covering production in Fujian and the export trade to Japan and Southeast Asia.
• Rita C. Tan, Zhangzhou Ware Found in the Philippines: “Swatow” Export Ceramics from Fujian, 16th–17th Century, 2007. An illustrated exhibition catalogue documenting Zhangzhou wares traded to the Philippines.

 

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