A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'TWIN FISH' DISH, WANLI FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'TWIN FISH' DISH
WANLI FOUR-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1573-1619)
The dish is decorated in the center in deep shades of underglaze blue with two fish amidst sea plants and is similarly decorated on the reverse with five fish. The base is inscribed with a four-character seal mark which reads, dehua changchun ('influence with virtue, everlasting spring').
7 1/8 in. (18.1 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Edward T. Chow (1910-1980) Collection.
The Edward T. Chow Collection, Part Three; Sotheby Parke Bernet Ltd., Hong Kong, 19 May 1981, lot 416.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN