18TH CENTURY

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A WHITE-GLAZED CARVED 'TWIN-FISH' DISH
18TH CENTURY
Made in imitation of Dingyao prototypes with metal-bound rims, the center well carved in relief with two fish facing each other within a double line border, the everted rim incised with foliate meander below the raised edge glazed pale grey blue in imitation of a metal mount
9 5/8 in. (24.3 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Mrs. Edward Drummond Libbey Collection.

Exhibited

Detroit, Michigan, Detroit Institute of Arts, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1952, no. 141.

Special notice

This lot is exempt from Sales Tax.

Lot Essay

A similar dish in the Baur Collection, Geneva, is illustrated by M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing Porcelain: Famille Verte, Famille Rose, London, 1987, p. 217, no. 219, where the authors note that it is imitating Song Ding wares and that pieces of this type appear in Tang Ying's list of 1729. The Baur and the present dish are also similar in shape, as well as decoration, with earlier proto-yue basin prototypes such as the basin dated to the Jin dynasty, 3rd-early 4th century, in the Percival David Foundation illustrated by M. Medley in Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares, London, 1977, p. 9, pl. I, no. 2. It is possible that the Ding ware dishes decorated with twin fish were themselves influenced by these earlier stonewares.

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