A Longquan celadon twin fish dish – Southern Song/Yuan Dynasty
This dish is potted with shallow rounded sides rising to a flat everted rim, the interior decorated in relief with a pair of scaly fish, and the exterior moulded/carved with lotus petals radiating upward from the foot, the glaze colour is of an olive-green tone.
Period: Southern Song/Yuan Dynasty, probably 13th Century
Size: Diameter 21 cm, height 5 cm
Condition: wear and minor firing flaws, numerous chips to the footring, a repaired damage to the rim with an associated hairline crack (see pictures)
Provenance: From a private Swedish collection
SKU: 100
References: See shards illustrated by the Palace Museum in The specimens of ancient Chinese kilns in the collection of the Palace Museum – Zhejiang Volume 3, Feng Xiaoqi, 2014, plate 1466,1467.
See also a smaller dish in Guangzhou Museum dated to Southern Song illustrated in Longquan porcelain in the collection of Guangzhou Museum, Guangdong People´s Publishing House, 2022, plate 30.
See also dish from the Palace Museum dated to Yuan, are illustrated in Longquan of the world – Longquan Celadon and Globalization, Vol. 1 – A history of Thousands of Years, The Forbidden City Publishing House, 2019, Plate 91
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