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A VERY RARE AND FINELY MOLDED DING 'TWIN FISH’ WASHER
A VERY RARE AND FINELY MOLDED DING 'TWIN FISH’ WASHER
A VERY RARE AND FINELY MOLDED DING 'TWIN FISH’ WASHER
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A VERY RARE AND FINELY MOLDED DING `TWIN FISH’ WASHER

NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (AD 960-1234)

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A VERY RARE AND FINELY MOLDED DING 'TWIN FISH’ WASHER
NORTHERN SONG-JIN DYNASTY (AD 960-1234)
The washer is molded on the interior with a pair of fish swimming in tandem amidst frothing waves, encircled by two sinuous chilong on the rounded sides below a keyfret border and unglazed rim. It is covered overall with a translucent glaze of pale ivory tone.
4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm.) diam., brocade box
Provenance
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4627.

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Lot Essay

For a Ding washer of this form molded with fish and a keyfret border, from the Qing Court Collection, see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 32 - Porcelains of the Song Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1996, p. 92, no. 83. See, also, the Ding shards molded with closely related fish designs in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gugong bowuyuan cang Zhongguo gudai yaozhi biaoben (Examples of Ancient Chinese Kiln Sites in the Palace Museum Collection), vol. II: Hebei, Beijing, 2006, pp. 224-25, no. 186.

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