A blue and white dish, Vietnam, 15th/16th Century.
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Interior painted in underglaze blue with a stylized floral roundel encircled by leafy blossoms or tendrils below a scroll band at the rim, the exterior ringed with jeweled lappets and the base applied with brown iron oxide. Diameter 35 cm.
Firingflaws, wear.
Provenance
A private collection of Asian Ceramics. The collection was brought together by a Swedish gentleman with a career at within the Swedish Foreign Ministry. During the years posted in various countries in Asia the interest of Fine Art and Asian Art that he had with him from home developed and an academic study collection was formed. Friendships and alliances were made within the field that even resulted in arranging guest lectures for Mr Abu Rihdo, of Museum Pusat, Jakarta at the East Asian Museum in Stockholm in 1981.