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A LONGQUAN CELADON ‘TWIN FISH’ DISH 南宋 龍泉青釉印雙魚折沿盤
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY
來源：
the rounded sides rising from a tapered foot to a flat everted 日本私人收藏
rim, the interior moulded with a pair of addorsed carp, the
exterior with lotus petals, covered overall save for the footring
in a sage-green glaze, Japanese box
22.3 cm, 8¾ in.
PROVENANCE
A Japanese private collection.
HK$ 200,000-300,000
US$ 25,600-38,400

Dishes of this popular ‘twin fish’ design were produced from another from the Sir Percival David collection and now in the
the Southern Song dynasty to the Yuan dynasty. Compare a British Museum, London, illustrated in Stacey Pierson, Designs
similar Southern Song dynasty example from the collection of as Signs. Decoration and Chinese Ceramics, London, 2001,
Sakamoto Goro, sold in our New York rooms, 16th September pl. 11, where the author discusses the ‘twin fish’ motif as an
2014, lot 2. For an early example see a dish in the Minneapolis auspicious symbol of harmonious marriage and good fortune
Institute of Arts, included in the exhibition Ice and Green (p. 19).
Clouds. Traditions of Chinese Celadon, Indianapolis Museum A dish of this type, attributed to the Yuan dynasty, is included
of Art, Indianapolis, 1987, cat. no. 77, together with various in Celadons from Longquan Kilns, Taipei, 1998, pl. 218; two
related dishes and shards of both Song and Yuan periods, figs dishes recovered from a ship wrecked off the coast of Korea
77a-g. Another Song example is published in Longquan qingci in 1323 are illustrated in Relics Salvaged from the Seabed off
[Longquan celadon], Beijing, 1966, pl. 32; and one from the Sinan. Materials I, Seoul, 1985, pl. 11, no. 13; and another dish
Riesco collection was sold twice in our London rooms, in 1984 is published in T. Misugi, Chinese Porcelain Collections in the
and 1986, and again at Christie’s New York, 19th September Near East: Topkapi and Ardebil, Hong Kong, 1981, vol. III, pl.
2007, lot 260. See also a smaller example in the Metropolitan A230.
Museum of Art, New York, included in Oriental Ceramics. The
World’s Great Collections, vol. 11, Tokyo, 1982, pl. 51; and

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