A blue and white plate. Zhangzhou (Swatow). Ca. 1610 - image-1

Lot 513 Dα

A blue and white plate. Zhangzhou (Swatow). Ca. 1610

Auction 1034 - overview Cologne
13.06.2014, 14:00 - Chinese Paintings, Works of Art, Porcelain, Ceramics of Art, Snuff Bottle
Estimate: 600 €
Result: 793 € (incl. premium)
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A blue and white plate. Zhangzhou (Swatow). Ca. 1610

A blue and white plate, painted with two standing phoenixes below a large peony blossom, surrounded by a border of fish scale decoration and five oval cartouches, each with two sprays of flowers. Zhangzhou (Swatow). Ca. 1610.
Diameter 26.8 cm

Provenance

Wolfgang Nolting, Southern Germany (purchased at R & G McPherson Antiques, London, February 2005)
The plate is from the Binh Thuan ship wreck, sold at Christie’s Australia, Melbourne, 1 & 2 March 2004
The Binh Thuan Wreck was found in the south of Vietnam, around 65 km off the Province Binh Thuan and sank about 1608 AC. The on-board porcelain mainly came from Zhangzhou (Swatow).