Chinese Swatow tea bowl
	Typically roughly executed as with many folk wares, Swatow bowls were prized for tea in Japan, both the blue and white and the color, of which this is a classic example, with overglaze enamels in red and green depicting a lotus flower.
	5 1/4" diameter, 2 1/4" high.  16th century, late Ming Dynasty.

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