A FINE AND RARE MING IRON-RED-DECORATED 'FISH' BOWL

細節

A FINE AND RARE MING IRON-RED-DECORATED 'FISH' BOWL
HONGZHI/ZHENGDE PERIOD (1488-1521)

Well potted with deep rounded sides rising to a flared mouthrim, the exterior painted in brightly shaded iron-red with four swimming carp, their scaly bodies and fins naturalistically detailed, all between double-line borders repeated on the interior, the central medallion enclosing a single carp, the slightly domed base covered with a clear blue-tinged glaze
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) diam., box

來源

The Edward T. Chow Collection, Part 1, sold in Hong Kong, 25 November 1980, lot 26.

出版

Cecile and Michel Beurdeley, La Ceramique Chinoise, 1974, pl. 104.

拍品專文

An unmarked dish with this design was sold in London, 15 July 1980, lot 93. Another dish, inscribed with an underglaze-blue Zhengde four-character mark, from the F. Howard Paget collection, is illustrated by Edgar E. Bluett, Ming and Ch'ing Porcelains, London, 1933, no. 52; and again by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection, London, 1985, pl. 74, p. 98, where the author compares the dish with a blue and white bowl of the same period sent to Persia and published by J. A. Pope, Chinese Porcelains from the Ardebil Shrine, Washington, 1956, pl. 61.