AN ANNAMESE BLUE AND WHITE "TWIN FISH" DISH

15TH/16TH CENTURY

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AN ANNAMESE BLUE AND WHITE "TWIN FISH" DISH
15th/16th Century
With shallow rounded sides raised on a thick, steeply cut foot, the interior painted in gray-blue tones with two fish in mutual pursuit surrounded by a band of breaking waves below a continuous foliate meander in the well and a band of classic scroll on the everted rim within a raised and unglazed outer edge, the exterior painted in linear style with large lotus petals, the base covered with a brown wash
14 3/8in. (13.5cm.) diam.

拍品專文

Large dishes of this type with a deep cavetto and everted rim were first made in China during the Yuan dynasty for the Islamic market, and the Vietnamese during the 15th and 16th centuries copied this form as well as some of the Chinese decorative motifs, such as double or "twin fish". For two other examples, also finely painted with this same motif, see the example in the Museum Pusat, Jakarta, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 3, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 294 and one from the F.W. Bodor Collection included in the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society exhibition, Vietnamese Ceramics, National Museum, Singapore, 1982, and illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 33, fig. g