This dish is an example of Nonyaware, which are overglazed polychrome enamelled porcelains possibly, imported from the kilns of Jindezhen in China for Straits Chinese customers.The collective Baba Malay term for dining ware is 'pinggan mangkok', which literally means 'plates and bowls'. The dinner service can also include cups, saucers, spoons and spoon rests. Wealthy Peranakan families often commissioned the highest quality porcelain wares for special occasions that would bear their surnames. They would have elaborate decorations of bird and flower motifs, and colourful enamelled backgrounds of green, yellow and rose pink or white like this example.
