A BLUE AND WHITE `FISH` DISH

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30.05.2023 05:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 2807 | A BLUE AND WHITE 'FISH' DISH
A BLUE AND WHITE 'FISH' DISH

WANLI FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

The interior is decorated in the center with two fish swimming amidst water weeds, all within a double-ring border. The decoration is repeated on the exterior with five fish, and the base is inscribed with a four-character mark in seal script reading dehua changchun (influence with virtue, everlasting spring) within a square and further surrounded by a Wanli four-character seal mark.

6 3/8 in. (16.4 cm.) diam.





Provenance

Spink & Son, London, January 1935, as recorded in the RHRP ledger

The Reginald and Lena Palmer Collection, no. 352
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