A large Chinese Islamic market porcelain dish, probably Swatow, 17th century, painted in overglaze green and black enamels, with talismanic inscriptions, red line border, approximately 41cm diameter Dishes similar to this were exported to Indonesia and are believed to have been commissioned by the powerful seventeenth-century Shia sultans of Aceh in northwest Sumatra, including Sultan Iskander Muda (1607-1636) (Canepa 2006, no. 40).