5th Mar, 2021 10:00
TWO-DAY AUCTION - Fine Chinese Art / 中國藝術集珍 / Buddhism & Hinduism
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A LONGQUAN CELADON ‘TWIN FISH’ DISH, LATE SOUTHERN SONG TO YUAN DYNASTY
宋末元初青釉雙魚盤
Sold for €1,074
including Buyer's Premium
China, 13th-14th century. The exterior of the deep rounded sides carved with a band of petals rising from the foot to the flat everted rim, and the interior decorated in the center with two molded fish, covered overall with a glaze of sea-green tone except for the foot rim burnt reddish-brown in the firing.
Provenance: Ex-Collection of The Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. István Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe.
Condition: Old wear, firing flaws, old repairs to rim, the glaze with erosion probably from saltwater.
Weight: 171.6 g
Dimensions: Diameter 12.7 cm
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, were popular products of the Longquan kilns during the late Southern Song to early Ming period.
Literature comparison: Similar Longquan celadon ‘twin fish’ dishes were recovered from the cargo of a trading 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, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 1977, pl. 28. Other examples are in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Lung-chu'n Ware, Ko Ware and other Wares, Taipei, 1974, pl. 26, and in the Percival David Foundation, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares, rev. ed., London, 1997, p. 27, no. 265.
Auction result comparison: Compare with a closely related dish at Christie’s New York in Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 30 March 2005, lot 318, sold for USD 11,400.
宋末元初青釉雙魚盤
中國, 十三至十四世紀。深圓形側面，腹外壁飾蓮瓣紋。盤寬折沿，平底，盤內底貼首尾相對的模印雙魚。整體覆蓋有青綠色釉，脚緣露胎成紅褐色。
來源：The Zelnik Istvan Southeast Asian Gold Museum, 168頁，布達佩斯2013。這件拍品還將出現在即將出版的關於Zelnik博士先生收藏中的金銀器一書中，該書將於2021年出版。
圖片：Dr. István Zelnik
品相：舊磨損，燒制瑕疵，邊缘有舊的修復，釉面可能受鹽水侵蝕。
重量：171.6 克
尺寸：直徑12.7 厘米
拍賣結果比較：一件相近的盤，見紐約佳士得Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art 拍場，2005年3月30日，lot 318, 售價USD 11,400
China, 13th-14th century. The exterior of the deep rounded sides carved with a band of petals rising from the foot to the flat everted rim, and the interior decorated in the center with two molded fish, covered overall with a glaze of sea-green tone except for the foot rim burnt reddish-brown in the firing.
Provenance: Ex-Collection of The Zelnik István Southeast Asian Gold Museum. Institutional art collection in Belgium, acquired from the above. Dr. István Zelnik, President of the Hungarian South and Southeast Asian Research Institute, is a former high-ranking Hungarian diplomat who spent several decades in Southeast Asia, building the largest known private collection of Asian art in Europe.
Condition: Old wear, firing flaws, old repairs to rim, the glaze with erosion probably from saltwater.
Weight: 171.6 g
Dimensions: Diameter 12.7 cm
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, were popular products of the Longquan kilns during the late Southern Song to early Ming period.
Literature comparison: Similar Longquan celadon ‘twin fish’ dishes were recovered from the cargo of a trading 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, National Museum of Korea, Seoul, 1977, pl. 28. Other examples are in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in Illustrated Catalogue of Sung Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Lung-chu'n Ware, Ko Ware and other Wares, Taipei, 1974, pl. 26, and in the Percival David Foundation, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Celadon Wares, rev. ed., London, 1997, p. 27, no. 265.
Auction result comparison: Compare with a closely related dish at Christie’s New York in Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art on 30 March 2005, lot 318, sold for USD 11,400.
宋末元初青釉雙魚盤
中國, 十三至十四世紀。深圓形側面，腹外壁飾蓮瓣紋。盤寬折沿，平底，盤內底貼首尾相對的模印雙魚。整體覆蓋有青綠色釉，脚緣露胎成紅褐色。
來源：The Zelnik Istvan Southeast Asian Gold Museum, 168頁，布達佩斯2013。這件拍品還將出現在即將出版的關於Zelnik博士先生收藏中的金銀器一書中，該書將於2021年出版。
圖片：Dr. István Zelnik
品相：舊磨損，燒制瑕疵，邊缘有舊的修復，釉面可能受鹽水侵蝕。
重量：171.6 克
尺寸：直徑12.7 厘米
拍賣結果比較：一件相近的盤，見紐約佳士得Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art 拍場，2005年3月30日，lot 318, 售價USD 11,400
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