A RARE LARGE LONGQUAN CELADON 'FISH' DISH

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A RARE LARGE LONGQUAN CELADON 'FISH' DISH
YUAN DYNASTY

Moulded in the centre of the interior with four fish swimming along the edge in a clockwise direction, the exterior moulded with lotus petals stemming upwards from the base to the flat everted rim, covered in a celadon glaze of soft tone
15 in. (38.3 cm.) diam.

Provenance

An Important Private Collection of Chinese Celadons and Other Ceramics, sold in Hong Kong, 5 November 1996, lot 604.

Literature

Julian Thompson, 'Chinese Celadons', Arts of Asia, November-December 1993, p. 65, fig. 4 right.

Lot Essay

Cf. a similar example of the same size, but with the fish swimming closer to the centre illustrated by Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, vol. I, cat. no. 66.

(US$20,000-25,000)

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