A LARGE INCISED LONGQUAN CELADON 'TWIN FISH' DISH

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A LARGE INCISED LONGQUAN CELADON 'TWIN FISH' DISH
YUAN DYNASTY

The interior of the dish freely incised with two large fish circling the well, surrounded by expressive stylised scrolls around the cavetto to the everted flat rim, the exterior is moulded and incised with overlapping lotus leaves radiating from the wedge-shaped foot, the glaze is of a blue-green colour pooling to a darker tone in the recesses, the footring is unglazed
14 3/8 in. (36.5 cm.) diam., box

Provenance

An Important Private Collection of Chinese Celadons and other Ceramics, sold in Hong Kong, 5 November 1996, lot 603.

Exhibited

Chinese Celadons and Other Related Wares in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asian Ceramics Society, Singapore, 1979, Catalogue, no. 77, pl. 65.

Lot Essay

A very similar dish in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, is illustrated by Krahl, Catalogue, vol. I, no. 67.

(US$11,000-13,000)

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