Plate with seal script

Decorated in red and turquoise, the main picture on this plate is an abstract scene depicting a stream over a large pagoda split into three smaller pagodas. Four seals, reading yutang fugui ("jade hall full of nobility and wealth") alternate with two scenes set in the openings, one depicting a boat docking in the rain, the other fishing under the moon. The poetic drawing was executed on a coarse body with a glaze-peeled lip and sand adhering to its unglazed foot. The use of the term swatow should be reconsidered in light of recent discoveries as mentioned in the Ming essay in this book.

11/10/2016. On the loan list to Southern Branch, National palace Museum, Taipei.

There are three types of porcelain for export in the collection: the so-called blue-and-white crark ware (B60P1129; B69P21), the ware decorated with polychrome like this (also B60P1125, P255, P256, P257, P531, P933, P935, P936, P1124,P1125; B69P9; 1991.82) and the ware decorated with monochrome (B71P1; B65P42) were among the major goods exported by East India Company the Dutch at time 1621-1632, (see the collection in Princesseh of Museum, Leeuwarden), which have been identified as products of Zhangzhou, Fujian province. see Forbidden City no. 195, 2011.04, pp.64-77.