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A BLUE AND WHITE DISH WITH FISH DESIGN TWO BLUE AND WHITE SMALL SAUCER DISHES
Le dynasty, 15th/16th century Le dynasty, 15th/16th century
Painted in underglaze cobalt with striping along the walls and a fish The larger of simple circular form with a short foot supporting a curving
swimming amid water weeds across the floor of the shallow well, the well centered with a lotus and trillium roundel and a classic tendril
celadon-tinged glaze applied to the well and exterior walls, leaving the scroll band at the rim reversed by a wider flower and leaf band on the
rim and the deeply recessed foot area unglazed and a single ring of upper exterior walls, the glaze stopping along the foot and partially
iron wash brushed along the join of the foot to the base. covering the recessed base; the smaller dish molded with a barbed
9in (23cm) diameter rim and painted with a bird on a flowering branch framed by a band
of radiating lines along the cavetto, the reverse painted with jeweled
$1,000 - 1,200 lappets and the deeply recessed base left unglazed with traces of iron
red adhering.
Published 6 and 4 3/8in (15 and 11cm) diameter
James H. Brow and Anh Hoang Brow, ‘Vietnamese Ceramics: A Ten
Thousand Year Continuum,’ Arts of Asia, March-April 2004, p. 91, no. $800 - 1,200
25.
Published
For a similar dish with the fish facing to the left and two rings of iron James H. Brow and Anh Hoang Brow, ‘Vietnamese Ceramics: A Ten
brown painted on the base, see John Stevenson and John Guy, Thousand Year Continuum,’ Arts of Asia, March-April 2004, p. 91, no.
Vietnamese Ceramics: A Separate Tradition, 1997, p. 329, no. 275. 28.

For a drawing of a small dish excavated from the kiln site, with barbed
rim and band of radiating lines along the cavetto similar to the second
saucer dish in this lot, see Tang Ba Huanh (editor), Gom Chu Dao [Chu
Dao Ceramics], 1999, p. 059, third dish in the right column.

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