YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)

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A RARE LARGE LONGQUAN CELADON 'FISH' DISH
YUAN DYNASTY (1279-1368)
The interior is molded with four scaly fish encircling a flaming pearl below a freely carved foliate scroll in the well, with a band of narrow petals carved on the exterior below the everted rim. The dish is covered overall with a glaze of sea-green tone thinning to a paler tone on the raised areas.
15 1/2 in. (39.4 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box

Provenance

Ehime Bunkakan, Japan, prior to 1955.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

A slightly smaller (28 cm. diam.) Longquan celadon dish, molded with two, rather than four fish on the interior, from the tomb of Liu Da, dated to 1337, is illustrated in Qingse liunian quanguo chutu Zhejiang jinian ci tuji (Catalogue of Zhejiang Celadon Wares from Dated Tombs), Beijing, 2017, p. 324.

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