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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN
1560
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'TWIN FISH' DISH
WANLI FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF
THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
The dish is decorated in the center in deep shades of underglaze blue with
two fish amidst sea plants and is similarly decorated on the reverse with
five fish. The base is inscribed with a four-character seal mark which reads,
dehua changchun (`influence with virtue, everlasting spring').
7¿ in. (18.1 cm.) diam.
$25,000-35,000
PROVENANCE:
Edward T. Chow (1910-1980) Collection.
The Edward T. Chow Collection, Part Three; Sotheby Parke Bernet Ltd.,
Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 416.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.
A blue and white dish of nearly identical size (18.2 cm. diam.) decorated
with fish and waterweeds, also with a Wanli nianzao mark encircling
a seal mark reading dehua changchun, is in the collection of the Art
Museum, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and is illustrated in Yuan and
Ming Blue and White Ware from Jiangxi, Nanchang, 2002, no. 96.
明萬曆 青花雙魚紋盤 「萬曆年製德化長春」款 (reverse)
