17TH CENTURY

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AN INCISED WHITE-GLAZED SOFT-PASTE 'TWIN FISH' DISH
17TH CENTURY
The shallow dish is incised on the interior with a pair of fish enclosed by a floral scroll band and a thin scroll beneath the turned-out rim. It is covered overall with a crackle-suffused glaze of ivory tone.
10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm.) diam., cloth box

Provenance

Samuel T. Peters (1854-1912) Collection.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4335.

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Lot Essay

The motif of twin fish on the present dish looks back to Song-dynasty versions that were produced with celadon glazes. An emblem of harmony, it is symbolic of "connubial felicity." A smaller soft-paste white porcelain dish incised with twin fish in waves is illustrated by J. Ayers in The Baur Collection, Geneva: Chinese Ceramics, vol. 3, Monochrome: Glazed Porcelain of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Geneva, 1972, no. A429, described as “imitating Sung Ting ware”.

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