Ming Dynasty Swatow Ware Small Porcelain Dish pectoralpendant revering nature spirits and ancestral

revering nature spirits and ancestral ghosts (mogat)

A set of beautiful Chancay textile fragments

capturing the grace and tenderness of Hellenistic aesthetics

carved from a single piece of hardwood and originally mounted atop a cylindrical bark reliquary

Ming Dynasty Swatow Ware Small Porcelain Dish pectoralpendant revering nature spirits and ancestralLate Ming Dynasty, c. 16101640 AD, Zhangzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, China Charming and finely executed small Swatow (Zhangzhou) ware porcelain dish, decorated in underglaze cobalt blue with a loosely painted garden scene of stylized flowers, plants, and leavesits spontaneous, freehand brushwork lending a lively and expressive character. The reverse features three concentric blue bands, a hallmark of Swatow decoration. The Ming Dynasty