A 'LONGQUAN' CELADON 'TWIN FISH' DISH SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY

the shallow rounded sides rising to a broad flat rim, the interior applied with a pair of scaly fish, encircled by a band of incised waves faintly carved and combed in the cavetto, applied overall with an attractive bluish-green glaze finely suffused with a matrix of crackles, thinning to white along the edges and stopping short above a neatly cut unglazed footring

Mayuyama & Co. Ltd., Tokyo, circa 1960s.

There is an old two-section chip at 5 o'clock restored to the rim as visible on the photo with a three-prong crack extending from it on the underside. There is another crack to the rim at 3 o'clock with some darker dirt accretion (also showing on the photo. The crack is going over the rim and extending on approx 9 cm. on the underside. There is another less prominent crack to the rim at approx 12 o'clock with a small loss of glaze (approx 0.5 cm) to the underside that have been filled in. There are a few kiln chips to the footrim and a burst air bubble in the glaze at approx 10 o' clock on the underside of the rim. The colour of the glaze is very attractive, slightly darker and a fraction more green compared to the catalogue illustration, but still nicely tinged to blue.
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A similar dish sold in these rooms, 24th/25th November 2014, lot 1231. Compare also another sold our New York rooms, 16th September 2014, lot 2, from the collection of Sakamoto Goro.