This dish is decorated with floral sprays arranged in three concentric bands. The thick potting, sketchily-rendered decoration and gritty base of this dish indicates that it was produced at the Zhangzhou kilns in Fujian province. Grit often adhered to the foot of Zhangzhou wares as the pieces were placed directly on the coarse sand (spread on the bottom of the saggar) while they were still wet with glaze. Zhangzhou wares, which are distinguished by their free and vigorous style of painted decoration, were a popular type of ceramics made for export during the late Ming dynasty.
