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A VERY RARE GREEN AND RED-ENAMELED 'FISH' JAR 明ǎ十Սˠ紀ǎ紅綠彩魚藻紋➬
MING DYNASTY, 16TH CENTURY 展覽
9q in. (24.8 cm.) high, Japanese wood box ૯阪
૯阪市⒤美術館
Ǚ明清の美術ǚ
年 月 日 月 日
֨ḛ
$30,000-50,000 ૯阪市⒤美術館
Ǘ中य़美術展ɚʍʚɝ 明清の美術ǘ, ૯阪, 年
編號
EXHIBITED:
Osaka, Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Min Shin no Bijutsu, 21 October-23
November 1980.
LITERATURE:
Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts, Chûgoku bijutsu ten, series 5: Min Shin no
bijutsu, Osaka, 1980, no.1-79.
The combination of iron-red and green glaze was utilized primarily during
the Jiajing period (1521-1567). According to Daisy Lion-Goldschmidt in
Ming Porcelain, New York, 1978, p. 164, in her discussion of the 'Red-and-
Green' Group, this palette would come to dominate polychrome porcelains,
eventually leading to the appearance of famille verte during the second half of
the seventeenth century.

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A LONGQUAN CELADON `TWIN FISH' DISH molded fish dishes of this type were recovered from the cargo of a trading
LATE SOUTHERN SONG-YUAN DYNASTY, 13TH-14TH CENTURY vessel that sank off the coast of Sinan, South Korea, in the 1320s, and were
included in the Special Exhibition of Cultural Relics Found off the Sinan Coast,
8q in. (21.6 cm.) diam., Japanese wood box National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 1977, pl. 28. Other examples are in the
National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in Illustrated Catalogue of Sung
$15,000-25,000 Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Lung-chu'än Ware, Ko Ware
and other Wares, Taipei, 1974, pl. 26, and in the Percival David Foundation,
PROVENANCE: included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares, rev. ed., London, 1997,
Private collection, Japan.
p. 27, no. 265.
Paired fish symbolize fertility and connubial bliss, and they are also one of

the Eight Buddhist symbols. Dishes of this type, known as 'twin fish' dishes, 南宋晚期 元ǎ十˕ 十ोˠ紀ǎ龍泉⒋青釉雙魚紋盤
were popular products of the Longquan kilns during the late Southern Song
to early Ming period. Similar dishes have been recovered from Southern Ϝ源
Song kilns in the Longquan region, such as the bowl unearthed at Jincun, 日本私́珍藏
illustrated in Longquan Qingci Yanjiu, Beijing, 1989, pl. 36:3. Longquan