Dish

China

c. 1643

Porcelain

Minneapolis Institute of Art

While <I>kraak</I> porcelain found particular popularity in Europe, China was producing <I>Swatow ware</I> for export to Japan, Southeast Asia, India, and Indonesia. Named for a port city from which they were exported, these dishes have a distinctively gritty glaze and were made along the southern coast of China in the 16th and 17th centuries. Gallery G209 Gift of Leo A. and Doris Hodroff